Port Said
Yesterday we drove with friends to Port Said on the Mediterranean. It's a duty-free port and a summer resort area for Egyptians.
Port Said is located where the Suez Canal begins (ends?). Ships in the canal appear to be moving through fields.
The first half of the 3-hour drive is through desert,
with a few villages.
Eventually we entered the Nile Delta and saw mango tree groves,
and mango stands.
When we arrived in Port Said, it was time to eat. We came for a seafood dinner to celebrate Meredith's birthday. It wasn't a dinner it was a feast!
In fact it was so amazing that we forgot to shoot pictures of the dishes...
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Our friends made sure that we sampled everything as the waiter brought more and more dishes.
Here is what we ate: fresh warm Egyptian bread, baba ghannoug, hummus, foul dip, seafood dip, spicy dip, cheese dip, pickled veg, including eggplant, fresh salad, fried eggplant, spaghettii with shrimp and squid, baked rice, small broiled local fish, shrimp (6-inch), crab, baked flounder with potato and cheese,orzo in sauce, molokhia,and pudding.
Here is how we looked after our feast.
Here is the seaside strip where we ate.
Port Said is a duty-free port, so we went shopping
for shoes.
Another in our collection of doors.
Port Said architecture is very distinctive with many arches and large balconies.
with beautiful stonework.
Street life
Each balloon is a wedding wish from friend or family to the couple who are being married in this mosque tonight.
