Our Lives in Cairo
It sounds so exotic, living in Cairo, Egypt!
Marc and Mel at top of the ancient city gate Bab Zuweila
The reality is that our day to day lives are really pretty "normal". We love living overseas for all the fun and different things we can experience and the lifestyle bonuses such as not needing to own a car and avoiding winter. However, the reality is we still get up, go to work, shop, cook, eat, exercise, watch TV and sleep. Since this is rather mundane, and we want you to look at our blog, we tend to fill it with the highlights of our journey.
This blog is dedicated to showing you the setting of our day to day lives in Maadi, the area of Cairo in which we live. Maadi was set up by the British and is really a haven in the crowded, noisy, busy, green less city that most of Cairo's residents experience. I hope these photos give you some context for the stories we tell of our journey.
Digla Midan (even has a working fountain at night - sometimes). This is the closest landmark to our building. 
This is our street, Road 17. Our building is on the right close to this end of the road.
This is our building taken from the park that is in front of it. Our apartment is on the 3rd floor (which is the 2nd floor by the US way of thinking about it) and the main balcony faces this park.
We love our apartment. This is our living room (before our shipment arrived and curtains were fitted). 
The front gate of Cairo American College. The school has a wall around it and the grounds inside are very nice and after school are used extensively by the community. See pictures of inside the grounds at the school's website, http://www.cacegypt.org/ 
Marc busy at work in his office at CAC.
OK so in the end it was too much for me to just post this without any fun so here is Mel at the local market. There are actually supermarkets where we buy a lot of our groceries (and we could get all there) but this is too much interesting not to be part of.
The reality is that our day to day lives are really pretty "normal". We love living overseas for all the fun and different things we can experience and the lifestyle bonuses such as not needing to own a car and avoiding winter. However, the reality is we still get up, go to work, shop, cook, eat, exercise, watch TV and sleep. Since this is rather mundane, and we want you to look at our blog, we tend to fill it with the highlights of our journey.
This blog is dedicated to showing you the setting of our day to day lives in Maadi, the area of Cairo in which we live. Maadi was set up by the British and is really a haven in the crowded, noisy, busy, green less city that most of Cairo's residents experience. I hope these photos give you some context for the stories we tell of our journey.
Digla Midan (even has a working fountain at night - sometimes). This is the closest landmark to our building. This is our street, Road 17. Our building is on the right close to this end of the road.This is our building taken from the park that is in front of it. Our apartment is on the 3rd floor (which is the 2nd floor by the US way of thinking about it) and the main balcony faces this park.We love our apartment. This is our living room (before our shipment arrived and curtains were fitted). The front gate of Cairo American College. The school has a wall around it and the grounds inside are very nice and after school are used extensively by the community. See pictures of inside the grounds at the school's website, http://www.cacegypt.org/ Marc busy at work in his office at CAC.OK so in the end it was too much for me to just post this without any fun so here is Mel at the local market. There are actually supermarkets where we buy a lot of our groceries (and we could get all there) but this is too much interesting not to be part of.
Dry goods and spice shop. They have a range of spices in drawers (behind my head) as well as big bins of rice, lentils, flour etc. They also have a good range of nuts and dried fruit. You buy by weight.
Local small animal and bird butcher. You choose it from the cage and watch them prepare it for you on the spot. There are chickens, ducks, rabbits, pigeons and turkeys.
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