burgers and books

This is the famous Lucille's diner down the street, famous for its burgers. Pictured here is the closest thing around to NYC-style brunch scene, people waiting in line for pancakes and homefries every weekend.


We didn't get any pictures of it, but the Cairo annual book fair was incredible. Two weeks straight of hundreds of stalls and thousands of Cairenes at a time buying and selling every kind of book imaginable. Little kids with their parents, old people, religious, secular, people buying novels, textbooks, religious philosophy, you name it, overwhelmingly in Arabic, but also in other languages. I bought some history books, a couple of Tin-Tin comics in Arabic, a novel and Mister Happy.