Assalamualaikum and hello people.
I just came
back from Alexandria for a short-packed vacation with few of my buddies; I
guess all of us needed to wind up a little bit before the class is starting and
everything is spinning out. Actually it’s not planned at all. It just randomly
come to my mind when they said they want to go there “I’m in!” .
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| Montazah, King Farouk Castle. |
It’s quite a
nice one although the first one is my favorite. I’ve been there last summer and
this time is still not the same. I love that place. I love seashore; I love the
sound of the smashing wave, the smell of salty water and the blue-greeny color
of the sea. It’s so calming and worth it. Also we walked a lot, hell ya like
30k steps a day and I like it. I always love walking while wandering around…
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| excuse our tired-face lol. |
Also, the
people there are different from Cairo like earth and sky differ especially
Syrian people who mostly working in food industries there. There’s particular
restaurant that I like which is ‘Aruuus Dimasq’ or عروس دمشق at
the streets of ‘Asafirah’ عصفرة and
a Syrian ice cream shop which sell one of the best ice cream in the world,
Trifillo at the same place just in front of the sea. The people who works there
are also nice, eye-catchy and surprisingly… they can speak English well!
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| I was having Faransawi Syawerma and I tell you what, it's nyummy! |
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| the must-try ice cream here! |
Not to forget, I personally think that
Egyptians like native Alexandrian are differ than one in Cairo just by their
common courtesy. For an instance, most of the drivers will stop/slower their
vehicles and stopped others beside and behind just to let you crossed the
streets and that is a very major common courtesy that I think rarely happened
in Cairo. Secondly, when I was in a train and I offer an old lady my seat and
she happily thanked me and asked me if there’s anything that I’m selling so
that she can buy *how nice is that?* and one time we (our group) in bus one of
us offered an old man a seat and he thanked him and asked my friend to leave
his bag to him so it would not burden him and.. the list goes on and on.
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| Citadel of Qaitbay. |
Sorry for this quite a long rant but I just felt
like typing down this though out and…
here some of the photos that I managed to capture when I was there; or you may
view it through my Instagram account.
I guess that is it. I definitely am coming back
there, if I may and with that… thank you for reading.
