Feluccas passing the Grand Hyatt Hotel on the Nile at Cairo |
Young lovers, looking east across the Nile from El Gezira |
Feluccas on the Nile at Cairo |
Looking east across the Nile, Sofitel El Gezira Hotel is at left. |
Banks of the Nile |
New Opera House, Gezira |
A period mansion on Gezira Island |
Military hospital, a former palace on Corniche El Nil |
All calm in Tahrir Square - for now |
Not revolution, just business as usual |
The Egyptian Antiquities Museum |
Crossroads at Midan Talaat Harb |
Midan Talaat Harb |
Groppi coffee house on Midan Talaat Harb |
Groppi coffee house, Midan Talaat Harb |
Midan Opera (the 1860s opera house burnt down in 1971) |
Art Deco apartment buildings |
Fresh from the bakery on a Friday morning |
Fresh fruit at a Friday market |
Fresh fruit at a Friday market |
Fresh fruit set out at a Friday market |
Art Deco hotel building |
Art Deco buildings |
Art Deco buildings |
Nameplates beside a doorway |
Grand entrance |
Art Deco buildings |
Art Deco buildings |
Women's wear store |
French-language sign |
The heavily-guarded synagogue on Sharia Adly |
Art Deco building details |
Art Deco bank building |
Shisha pipes ready to fire up |
El Abd confectioners, perenially busy |
Inside a restaurant on 26th July Street |
Stephenson's Pharmacy, almost unchanged since the Forties. |
Old-fashioned pharmacy |
Just another night |
A fading Chevrolet Bel Air, parked in a back street |