Walking Alexandria Egypt

Walking Alexandria Egypt

Your inside my [Music] lo. [Applause] [Music] Yeah. Okay. So, I’m in Egypt and I was going to try to use the shore excursions at the terminal, but they’re like $200. [ __ ] that. There’s that. [ __ ] that again. I know an Uber costs $2 to get to the Four Seasons Hotel. And I just don’t I don’t know what the [ __ ] I’m doing, but I’m going to try to get out of the port for starters and I’m going to try to catch an Uber to the Cornish. I guess that’s what I’m going to do. Bye. Someone gave me a deal for 200 in the real Egypt. I am not in the tourist place anymore. It’s just like I remember it. Just like I remember it. I thought the elevator was sketchy in Greece. Super sketchy. Oh god. Am I in the right one? Maybe not. Uh-oh. No. No. This is right. This is right. Oh, here it comes. Oh my god. Super sketchy, but I love it. It’s Egypt. I found the market again. [Music] Don’t Hey, [Music] come back down. OMG. This is the Egyptian version of going to the street market. And consequently, everything you’re about to see here, they tried to confiscate it from me when I got on the ship. And I worked so hard for it. I went into Alexandria. First of all, let me say I’m dressed like this, okay? I’m dressed like this. I got a full length skirt to the floor. I’m not showing anything. I just saw girls getting off the ship with their, excuse me, nipples sticking out and their cleavage and they are going to get it, but they’ll learn that. They let me bring the stuff on board. Oh my god. So, look at this. This stuff is all contraband. Oh my god. Well, so you better enjoy. They were going to They did let me bring this on here. First, I have to say my success is entirely due to my courage and that I ran into a nice Egyptian man named Abdullah and he just took me under his wing and he wasn’t creepy at all. And we talked for I don’t know what time it is, maybe three hours and he led me around Alexandria through the old markets and the old Jewish part of the markets and and the old Turkish markets and I just got a few photos and I got some video but the stuff that you see on my page is the real deal. There’s no tourist stuff about it. I avoided that. But, you know, I um I bought him one of these and that’s all he wanted. He wouldn’t even take any money. But I have to eat this cuz it’s going to melt. What was I doing? I couldn’t help myself. I have no refrigerator. That’s the only thing they were going to let me bring back on the ship. Okay, here we go. This is so cool. And I got this in the Egyptian market. Consequently, I am filthy. I am filthy because that’s just the way Egypt is. Gibna, it’s cheese. It’s cheese. It’s so good. Look at this. Um, it’s a white cheese. And I just washed my hands, so I should be okay. It’s so creamy. I hope nobody down in the inspection gets in trouble. Oh my god, you guys. I’ve never really seen a real date before, but okay, watch this. You recognize these, right? Let me put it against my shirt. But watch. He just pulls off the skin. Oops. See, you pull off the skin. I guess these are the ones we’re used to. And that’s a date. I probably won’t get sick because I was drinking Cairo tap water when I left back in 97. And I really just don’t get sick anymore. And I And I did just wash my hands and I didn’t touch that. Okay, put that here. Oh my gosh, I hope that guy doesn’t get in trouble. Uh, okay. Dates. Another kind of date. This one. They really didn’t want me to bring this one back. These are dates, too. Yeah, that’s You see these growing on the trees, right? But the thing about these Where is it? Where is it? This is the one that This is it. right here. Well, listen. And crunchy. I know some of you back in the States are like, “Oh, you’re going to get sick.” No, I won’t cuz I’ve done this a lot. All right. And then I guess I didn’t buy as much as I thought I did, but it sure seemed like a gold mine haul. Egyptian pomegranates. See how dirty they are? And my I don’t know if my ass is still as dirty, but look, I sat on something. Oh, and I got most of it off, but Egyptian pomegranate. And then Oh, did I throw my bread away? And then I got And then I got uh Oh, where’d it go? I guess I threw my bread away. Why wouldn’t they let me bring my bread? That seems pretty innocuous, right? Okay, I guess they got my bread. They’re like, “Why do you need to bring food back?” back. I’m like, because it’s Egyptian street market food. It’s not this shei ship food, which is great. Well, I guess that’s it. They got me bread. That’s all. So, that was my Egyptian and this nicest man named Abdullah. And we made we made friends on WhatsApp. And um he led me through all over. And when I first got off the ship, I didn’t want to pay ship excursion prices. So, I get off the ship and this guy’s talking to me. He’s like, “I’ll take you around the town, show you three things for $200.” I just laughed in his face. And then with my bravery, which I didn’t know if I had it, but I did. And I went into Alexandria and I got lucky and I met Abdullah and he bought me tea and I used my bad Arabic and he used his bad English. And we had the translation apps and the currency converter. And I got 700 Egyptian pounds out of the second bank machine I found cuz the first one was broken. 700 Egyptian pounds is $15. So I just spent probably $5 and I got all this stuff and I didn’t have to pay anybody anything. And now I have an Egyptian friend. That’s it. 20 cents. We also talked political stuff. Egypt thinks Trump is crazy. He said he was like, “They really like Jimmy Carter and they really like Clinton.” I know. I almost started crying. Look, we’re going here now. We’re going here, guys. Who’s with me? Someone’s probably listening up. Oh my god. I’m sorry you can’t see this very well. Uhoh. Uhoh. Uh, hang on. Let me do this. Let me help you. Oh, [ __ ] He ate one of these. Abdullah. I think there’s cream in there. I was looking for baklava. They say blava, I think, is how he knew it. In um in Greece, it’s blava, I think. I just had to share that with you. I’m crying now. [Music] You stay you in chip or returning? Um, I’m going to the show. Yeah. Um, hi everybody. So, Abdullah told me something really cool today. He he Okay, so this this is the Arabic uh symbol for eight and this is the one. So, this is a one and an eight. He says, I don’t know if you can see it. Everybody all over the world has the one and the eight on their right hand. And everybody all over the world has the eight and the one. I don’t know if I wrote this right, but 18 and 81. No matter who you are all over the world, we all have that in our hands. And he says that makes 99 and 99 is the number of Allah or God. and therefore we are that means we’re just all joined as brothers no matter who we are what nationality and I thought that was really cool. I had never heard that before. And then he saw the enk on my toe which I don’t know if I can show you the enk on my toe. Oh my god. But I have anks on my toes and he goes sees it and he goes oh this this is denial because without denial there would be no life. So this is life with anyway the enk is life. I knew the enk is the key to life but I never heard that the enk was the Nile and the Nile is the key to the life and without the Nile there would be no life. This is just cool things Egyptians say if you get away from the tourist areas and chat with them for a while having tea in the middle of a filthy alley with cats crawling on

Walk with me as I experience the kindness of strangers (now friends). Alexandrian Egyptian Street markets and side streets, the real deal – no tourist stuff😁🇪🇬