Journeys by Marc & Mel: October 2009

The Streets of Cairo

I have had to go to the Australian Embassy several times over the past few weeks and have found myself experiencing what most Cairenes go through every day. Living and working in Maadi we can mostly avoid this as we can walk to most places we want to go. However, being stuck in traffic is a daily reality of most of the city with travel times of one to one and half hours to work being common. Here is what I looked at for about an hour:

- Mel, October 2009

Volleyball Weekend This weekend was the JV volleyball tournament. For the past few years Marc has coached the JV team and the tournament has been in Kuwait. This year Marc is coaching the older boys team and the tournament was at CAC. I signed up for the first aid station

and so spent the entire weekend at school handing out ice and taping sweating atheletes.

Joel Visits

Joel always turns up like... a McDonalds restuarant overseas...
It is great. We have had meetings in 6 countries on 4 continents in the last 9 years, and now in Cairo.

Budapest - Hungary

It seems for the beginning of this year we have one long weekend every month (you've gotta love the school schedule!). For the October long weekend we found cheap flights to Budapest, Hungary. Here are some photos of our weekend:

Chess at the railway station.

Workmen in Hungary wear overalls.

Statue at Buda Castle (by Mel).

Statue at Buda Castle (by Marc).

Coffee shop at Buda Castle.

Coffee shop at Buda Castle.

The Danube

Jewish Memorial (each leaf has the name of someone who perished during WW2)

The outside of the synagogue.

Walking the streets of Pest:

Bratislava, Slovakia

During the weekend we took the train to Bratislava, Slovakia to visit our friends Matt, Michelle, Emma Ruth & Alex Lake who work at a school there. We had a lovely overnight visit with them and were entertained quite a bit by Emma.