11 Nov 2007

HOW LONG TO BUY DRINKS ?

Yesterday evening we absolutely had to buy some juices and our Karkade (Egyptian tea). You can mix it together and it makes a wonderful refreshing cold drink which we usually drink during the day at the beach. So we went to our 'Ali Baba shop' who has everything. It would have taken maximum 10 min but there is so much to see and we always discover new things which are so cheap that we think it would be a crime not to buy them. It took us 2 h to buy our juice and of course we forgot the Karkade, but we came out with one long collar of agatha stones and one with lapis lazuli for 3,75 euros (3 $) each, an ashdray with hyroglyphes, 3 little cats and 3 T-shirts for my men, Ilona bought a blouse and a dress (below) and a silk scarf with a beautiful design and Chantal a bracelet in mother of pearl and also 3 T-shirts for 20 euros ! This was our drinks shopping ! We have a little kitchen in our apartment so that we do our coffee and tea ourselves. Nothing else of course !

After shopping we looked for a restaurant and went in another hotel because on the street there were none. People usually go from hotel to hotel if they look for some other menus. But when we saw the prices we were "shocked" instead of the usual price of around 6 euros they asked the double and that seemed soooo expensive to us although we could never get a decent menu for 12 euros at home. Now we didn't know what to do to pay or not to pay but suddenly turning around I saw something .... a Mac Donald !!! Even here you find something so familiar as a Mac Do, as everywhere in the world. There were no Egyptian burgers what a disappointment ! But the prices too were amazing ! For 9 chicken nuggets and two big macs with french fries we payed 3 euros all together !!

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Ilona tries her dress
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I flirt with this blouse
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to buy or not to buy that is the question
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and our meal at the Mac Do, the club of the 60th !!

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we finished our evening with a beautiful Egyptian musical. I made a little video but it is impossible to download. I will do it upon my return
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8 comments:

  1. Unknown11 Nov 2007, 18:07:00

    what wonderful pics and that sounds like a great drink

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  2. Anonymous11 Nov 2007, 18:48:00

    Oh, that's what a call a shopping tour indeed. It's fun to shop when the prizes are like that. Maybe it's good that they aren't like that here at home - where would we put all things....? *giggles*

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  3. Melli11 Nov 2007, 23:17:00

    ACK! I can NOT believe you went to Egypt and at Big Macs & Chicken Nuggets! Blech! I do LOVE that blue dress though! I hope Ilona DID buy it! Very pretty! Looks good on her too! You gals are having too much fun!!!

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  4. Puss-in-Boots12 Nov 2007, 01:49:00

    You are having a great time in Egypt, Gattina and the shopping sounds wonderful. Another destination for my travels...

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  5. MaR12 Nov 2007, 13:47:00

    I know why you left the guys home, lol!

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  6. Anonymous12 Nov 2007, 18:37:00

    Ha!Ha! lot of fun for you Gattina!
    The clothes you bought are beautiful! C'est les mille et une nuit Gattina!

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  7. Vlado&Toni12 Nov 2007, 19:51:00

    oh wow, you girls are really having lots of fun out there! oh i know how hard it can be sometimes to look for a restaurant to eat with the right price, right service and right menu. tell ilona that blue dress really suits her :)

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  8. TorAa15 Nov 2007, 22:03:00

    OMG - ending up at Mc Do after shopping. That means you went broke. Og - you Women. LOL

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