Today I have had dinner at an open air restaurant, adjacent to the banks of the Nile. An interesting experience indeed. The place is very crowded, despite it being past 9.30pm when we arrived.
It reminded me a little of a drive in theatre in the States, not that I have ever been to one, but have seen enough of them in movies and tv shows to know what they are. This restaurant boasted a large plasma screen with sufficient volume that one could hear adequately without drowning out your conversation, perhaps restaurants and bars back home could take note!
For a grand total of LE20, (approx £2) dinner was a huge plate of rice with chicken kebab, the upside, the food was delicious, the downside, American sized portions, so food was wasted, which is a heartbreaker for me, perhaps moreso in a country where many people struggle to find sufficient food to eat on a daily basis.
The atmosphere was intensified by an impromtu fireworks display, as I discovered later, to celebrate the engagement of a young couple, who led their party of friends and family into the arena of their engagement party, an altogether magical thing to watch, a world and a culture away from the way the British do things.
I have to admit I enjoyed the whole experience of eating al fresco, at a very late hour, in a temperature higher than anything we have seen in Britain all summer, oh yes, this is the life :)
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