day 9 in the land where you can buy beer from some guy in a place called "drinkies"
freshmeat: if i was sober, i don't think i would eat this.
ahhh...our unexpected free day in alexandria. sadly we don't know what to do with ourselves. so we decided to let ourselves sleep in (needed after MANY early morning sightseeing trips!) and watch horrible, horrible western movies. unfortunately housekeeping comes by while we are still in our pajamas. as she speaks very little english, i attempt to ask her to come back in 15 minutes...in my very little arabic.
it doesn't work.
translation: our room is never cleaned.
the alexandria library doesn't open until 3 so we have hours to kill. one of my guide books suggests a walking tour. we need to walk to the center of town to start it. luckily, the street has underground passages so we don't have to fear for our lives crossing it (we wanted to walk on the beach side). sadly, when we got to the center of town there was no underground passages.
we used a local as a shield.
he was willing.
we had lunch in an art deco building...stumbled our way to a beautiful synagogue (it's closed and my book said it would only be open to people of the faith. but as soon as they saw us, they came running out...we left before we had to take a tour). we continued walking to get to some bank that was supposed to have amazing architecture on the inside...only to realize it was closed (it was saturday).
sigh.
so eventually we wasted enough time and we went to the library. wow. truly awesome! so beautiful on the inside. the guided tour lasted about 10 minutes, but was very informative. afterward, we went to the cafe and sat on the terrace and watched a bunch of men in uniforms (spanish navy?) walk around as a huge group taking photos at every vantage point.
as the sun started to set, we started the trek back to our hotel. along the way we passed a man sitting in a small store that only sold beer (just him, a ledger to record how much was bought, and a small display case of beer). it's name was "drinkies." we went back and stocked up for the night. we were especially excited to try the 10% beer.
we spent the night drinking and watching movies. at one point we became hungry and i went down in search of "pizza." whatever was delivered to our door 40 minutes later was...under-cooked...but festively wrapped up in ribbons (with plenty of ketchup).
i still to this day don't know why they serve ketchup with pizza.
ahhh...our unexpected free day in alexandria. sadly we don't know what to do with ourselves. so we decided to let ourselves sleep in (needed after MANY early morning sightseeing trips!) and watch horrible, horrible western movies. unfortunately housekeeping comes by while we are still in our pajamas. as she speaks very little english, i attempt to ask her to come back in 15 minutes...in my very little arabic.
it doesn't work.
translation: our room is never cleaned.
the alexandria library doesn't open until 3 so we have hours to kill. one of my guide books suggests a walking tour. we need to walk to the center of town to start it. luckily, the street has underground passages so we don't have to fear for our lives crossing it (we wanted to walk on the beach side). sadly, when we got to the center of town there was no underground passages.
we used a local as a shield.
he was willing.
we had lunch in an art deco building...stumbled our way to a beautiful synagogue (it's closed and my book said it would only be open to people of the faith. but as soon as they saw us, they came running out...we left before we had to take a tour). we continued walking to get to some bank that was supposed to have amazing architecture on the inside...only to realize it was closed (it was saturday).
sigh.
so eventually we wasted enough time and we went to the library. wow. truly awesome! so beautiful on the inside. the guided tour lasted about 10 minutes, but was very informative. afterward, we went to the cafe and sat on the terrace and watched a bunch of men in uniforms (spanish navy?) walk around as a huge group taking photos at every vantage point.
as the sun started to set, we started the trek back to our hotel. along the way we passed a man sitting in a small store that only sold beer (just him, a ledger to record how much was bought, and a small display case of beer). it's name was "drinkies." we went back and stocked up for the night. we were especially excited to try the 10% beer.
we spent the night drinking and watching movies. at one point we became hungry and i went down in search of "pizza." whatever was delivered to our door 40 minutes later was...under-cooked...but festively wrapped up in ribbons (with plenty of ketchup).
i still to this day don't know why they serve ketchup with pizza.
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