Cairo on Blue Sky Day

We got engaged on Islay 27 years ago today and could never have foreseen we'd be waking up to views of Cairo, like this, so regularly all these years later. In truth, the older you get the more 'all these years' seems these 'very few years' now that we have a firmer perspective of the great sweep of time. So, we better make the most of it, and that starts with a visit to a Saturday fair at the Fish Garden as Dd wishes. My wish took us to a delayed birthday dinner and overnighter in the Kempinski hotel yesterday.

By the way, the foreground bridge is the Kasr (Qasr) Al Nil bridge engineered by Dorman Long of Middlesborough who also did the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle at about the same time, the mid-ground one is 6th October Bridge and the most distant one is 15th May Bridge. They connect Downtown (out of frame to the right) with Gizera Island (Zamalek lies at the far end of it in this shot). The British Council, where Dd works, lies across the island and the other stretch of the divided Nile, directly beyond the white-sided Novotel hotel which is in shot on the island to the right of the tall Cairo Tower. All clear? I thought so!