nearby villas

Now that we have a car (!) (pics about cars coming soon), we can drive around the 'burb'. About 4 minutes from our apartment compound (see earlier blog), there are many stunningly gorgeous villas. The days we travelled to school  by bus, we stopped at these kinds of villas to pick up some of the kids. Here are some of our favourites:


The friends who took us to Port Said live here. Mona designed this herself.

 

This pale green one is Meredith's favourtie.

 

This is Peter's favourite from two different angles.

And just driving around the "block" (a sandy lane strewn with rocks and potholes) you see...

Most villas are protected by a fence, sometimes a brick garden wall, or  hedge of trees or flowering bushes.  The effort, time, and cost to nurture these plants in the desert is amazing. Every morning the gardeners are up early watering and watering.

The entrance gates are also phenomenal. Each one is custom designed.

These palatial villas often sit next door to a lot which is under construction, a building site for someone else's villa. After all 6 October City is just 10 years old!

House proud, most villa owners are involved with renovation and refurbishing projects, so you see lots of tiles, bricks, and building materials. 

  

There are many jobs to be done, so villa owners have numerous live in servants, maids, nannies, gardeners, pool tenders, drivers etc. While the villa kids are inside watching TV and playing Wii, you often see the little ones of the servants playing in the streets. This little girl was playing with a litter of puppies.