Read a posting made by Kyle about his recent visit to Garbage City and it struck me that my favourite places in Egypt and Cairo are not usually the most beautiful or picturesque...and even those of them that are, I dont like for that but for some other thing...

Some of those places tingle something inside of me about my identity and my worldview...

Garbage City...as Jen was saying, the most powerful place in Egypt...I took Jen there, only a few days into her Egyptian experience...Garbage City throws at your face loads of things...political corruption; poverty; religious discrimination; religious dialogue and co-existence; religion being the core of Egyptian life; even fear...

Its just a Garbage City but then it gives you a different but yet similar perspective of the Egyptian reality...

Other places that tingle something inside of me...Coptic Cairo; Fishawy (Coffee Shop in Khan Khalili); Sultan Hassan Mosque (next to the Citadel); Trianon in Midan Raml in Alexandria; Abdel Aziz Street in Abdeen; Ballah (my family's summer house next to the Mediterranean); Hard Rock Cafe in Sharm Sheikh and so many more...

Egypt just does it for me...