GOLDEN HOTEL CAIRO, EGYPT -- 12

3-Star Hotel that Offers 10-Star Service at Backpacker Prices

The balcony in Golden’s kitchen overlooks all the street theater on Talaat Harb. 

Nabil loves to light up a cigarette.

By the way, it seems that everyone smokes in Cairo. 

The nonsmoking section often is one or two little tables – in the center of a full-smoking dining room.

Then Nabil has some coffee or tea.

Egyptians must be second only to Turks in tea consumption.

Then Nabil watches the world go by.

Sometimes he has a friend with him and they will be animatedly chatting in French, then Arabic, a tiny bit of English, then back to Arabic.

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