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Cairo, August 1965
Heading out from the Museum of Antiquities and hitting the mean streets of downtown Cairo was something that we didn't do on our trip. Our hotel was out near the Pyramids at Giza (leading to my astonished cries of "There are Pyramids at the end of the road...!" when I went up to the rooftop terrace one afternoon), and, having opted out of the afternoon part of the tour which involved a visit to some church or other (possibly the very one pictured here), we were ferried back there in our little minibus and the nearest we got to an "outside the bubble" experience was a stroll to a local restaurant back there.
In one of these pictures, presumably in their hotel lobby, Grandma does look as if she's being "beamed up" in a most "Blake's Seven" way, and in some others she seems to be getting on terribly well with the locals.
Other than that, generic views of Cairo from over half a century ago.
Apart from the skyline, and the motorways, and the apartment blocks, I wonder if it's really changed all that much in the last fifty years compared to the previous four thousand...?
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