Taxis,nonsense and street dance parties: Mohamed Elshahed of Cairobserver navigates us beyond the sensory overload of the Egyptian capitalI was born in Alexandria, another city I adore, and but I’ve chosen Cairo as my city. At the moment I’m a bit of a nomad but my last apartment in Cairo was in the neighbourhood of Garden City (that is the actual name not a translation). The neighbourhood is 10 minutes’ walk south of Tahrir Square,near Cairo’s downtown. It was built along the Nile in the 1910s. As the name suggests, it was meant to be a lush district of meandering streets lined with mansions. Over the decades the district’s fabric and density changed with apartment blocks and grand hotels replacing some of the gardens and houses. Today there are banks and offices located here replacing many of the district’s original families. This means that it is busier during the day but after four in the afternoon it is nearly silent and pleasant to walk in its tree-shaded streets right in the centre of Cairo.
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Source: theguardian.com