Friday, January 5, 2024

4 January 2024 Alexandria: The Things We Saw from the Street

 



We took the walk back from the Jewelry Museum.  We stopped for a pizza lunch at the Four Seasons.  It took us just shy of an hour to walk back due to the zigging and zagging required by the street layout.  One thing we noticed multiple times was the humor that our appearance brought to the locals.  From stares to the big smiles to outright laughter.  One person had to look away so that I could not see him laughing.  It seems that an uncovered head of blonde hair plus a bush stach are not common items about town. We saw some funny signs and had to walk across the six lanes of traffic when the power went out on the streetlights and crosswalk indicators.  We were trying to decipher how folks knew which of the smaller commuter vans to take.  It seemed that there were different hand signals but we were no sure.  Our waiter told is that there were inface different hand signals, in fact there were over a dozen of them!



Funky owl!


A big gate to another palace.  We had seen this palace from the beach road


Fancy gates


Hooka station at the Four Seasons


The Norwegian Pizza


Older gate


Very old gate


A little nicer


Back to nice


Mosaic!


A serious hat wearing pipe smoking dude


Not sure what is going on here but I lkie it


The wall along the water!


Stinky fish is our specialty


Wrapping of the palms to keep them warm for the winter


We saw this motorcycle comming our way with several dogs barking at him


He then turned around and goaded the dogs some 


I counted 12 dogs chasing after him


In a harbor area


A classic old steam ship


This guy likes his satellite TV


Everybody gets a great rounded balcony


This building was only one room wide!


One last cat before we get back to the hotel



It has been 1 year and 214 days since we began our Migration