Cairo bazaar - Dec 28, 2008 - 55

uploaded by Ed Yourdon February 22, 2009 at 02:22 pm
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No, this is not a four-armed delivery man; it's two guys riding on a motorcycle, with the guy on the back doing his best to balance an enormous tray of loaves of Egyptian bread, as his companion zoomed along the highway; I shot this rather hurriedly, through the front window of the bus as we passed by them...

The amazing thing is that the bread wasn't covered or tied down; and as a result, individual loaves of bread occasionally flew off the pile, though I don't know if the motorcycle riders were aware of it.

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After we visited the Citadel and the Alabaster mosque, we drove to the ancient bazaar of Cairo -- and spent a couple of hours walking through the crowded streets, listening to the frenzied sales pitches of merchants along the way, and stopping for lunch at a nice restaurant in the middle of the bazaar...

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Title: Cairo bazaar - Dec 28, 2008 - 55
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Created: Sun, 02/22/2009 - 2:22pm
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