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No Street Maps…???!!!

{ February 12, 2008 @ 6:02 am } · { maps }
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Street Map of Alexandria — but can’t magnify it so its not too helpful…

source: http://www.iictd.org/medvoices/alexandria/images/alexandria_map_large.jpg

I will be so disorientated unless I have a map.  Wait a minute, there are no streets in Alex so my husband reminds me — but wait, I distinctly remember driving around in a car.  Are we serious?  There really are NO street maps of Alex? 

 Not really.  I guess the Egyptians want to further engage the economy by having the tourist depend on the knowledge of travel guides and taxi drivers.  Well, I have the advantage of my inlaws and sister in law to guide me, but I do want to wonder out on my own as well…

Here is the website:  http://www.askmaps.com/001/ml210.php  It actually includes a hand-drawn map of the tramways for the city. 

 Another website is http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Egypt&t=h&z=12&ll=31.22249,29.95903 which has a so-called street map (with no street names) and a facinating satellite picture. 

Starbucks!

{ February 12, 2008 @ 5:37 am } · { coffee }
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source of picture:  http://www.starbucks.ca/en-ca/

Believe it or not Starbucks has arrived in Egypt.  I’m not sure yet if that is a good thing.

Not one but TWO starbucks!  One in San Stefano mall, city center and the other one in Carrefour, downtown.

I’ll probably avoid high-priced bad coffee.  According to Zahraa Awed, there are many coffee shops: “Cilantro, Dino, Beano’s, and Costa cafe…Harris cafe in Green Plaza and San Stefano Mall, Fever in Ramal Station, Grand Cafe, Coffee Roastery, Delight , Jungle , Athenaos, Trianon, and Delice.”