Month: June 2022

Flashing Scandal Exposed In Greece?

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He’s clearly not amused, while she’s got a wry smile on her face, and the serpent seems quite curious.

“I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.”

  – Oscar Wilde 1854-1900

Let me take you back to an amusing discovery I made in the excellent Acropolis Museum in Athens when I was there in February.

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Guides and Guidebooks: Reasons Why I Rarely Use Them

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The massive interior of the cave church of St. Simon the Tanner in the Garbage City neighborhood of Cairo, worth seeing, unlike the mural that Lonely Planet recommended.

I’d been to Garbage City a couple of times already but agreed to return with a new friend from Sydney who just moved into the Holy Sheet Hostel where I was staying in Cairo.

“Justin” was traveling solo on holiday from his job managing a bar, restaurant and gaming facilities in Australia’s largest city.

He had a four-year old Lonely Planet guide book with a paragraph about Garbage City which mentioned a French-Tunisian graffiti artist who had created what Lonely Planet described as “one of the most astonishing pieces of street art in the Middle East” in Garbage City in the 1970s. But it could only be seen in its entirety from an upper floor of a particular building near the massive cave church of St. Simon the Tanner.

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Life On The Backstreets of Cairo: Take A Walking Tour of ‘Garbage City’

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Entire families are involved in the collection and processing of Cairo’s rubbish in the area know as the City of Garbage, a neighborhood where they live and work.

I read about this part of Cairo before even planning my trip and was intrigued with the idea that an urban neighborhood would be almost entirely committed to the business of collecting and recycling municipal solid waste for its economic well-being.

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