Tag Archives: Shopping

Shop til you…

Aside from monuments, historical sites, and museums, one of the ways you can learn a lot about a place within a compact experience is by going shopping.  No, I don’t mean the hunt for that umpteenth pair of pumps or … Continue reading

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Stumbling in the City of Light

The drain at the stairs up from the shopping center by the Louvre Museum: how more chliché can you get than a Parisian gutter full of cigarette butts? After getting my art fix at the Louvre, I decided to head … Continue reading

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Day 2: Dinner and the Souk

When we arrived in Aswan, it was dinnertime and we were starving.  We found a small restaurant and ordered.  In honor of Eid el Adha (in which people customarily sacrifice a goat or sheep) our guide and I had tajeen … Continue reading

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