"More sights of Alexandria" a Alexandria Travel Page by uglyscot

The palace of Queen Nazleh, mother of ex-King Farouk is now a hospital. It lies on the Corniche at the western end towards Qait Bey.

By day this area is not imposing, but catches the eye at night.

Here you can see the sweep of the bay from Qait Bey at the centre back.
I recently discovered my Italian ancestor had been with Napoleon on his visit to Egypt, and tried to imagine what it must have been like in those days: would he recognise anything if he could see it today?

All the boats, large and small cluster into the curve of the western end of the bay.
The area is another popular place of young lovers to meet.

Because this time my grand-daughter was with us, and it was too stormy to go to the beach, we went to Montaza. We saw a sign to a play area and went there. She raced to go on the slide but before she reached the end, I noticed someone had carved a square out of it. Unfortunately she was grazed before we could stop her. On further inspection we found all the equipment had been vandalised.
We then decided to have a snack. We saw a cafe open [Riviera] and were directed up some positively tatty and dirty stairs. A group of people were being served, but they and the place looked so dodgey, we left.
Eventually we went to the other side of the gardens near the palace and had some quite good kufta sandwiches at the Panorama cafe.

One evening we decided to go for a trip along the Corniche by hantour. Husband, my grand-daughter, the nanny and I sat in the back and my daughter joined the driver. He was very friendly and gave us a nice commentary, but his horse obviously had not enjoyed its lunch and was producing anything but the Perfumes of Arabia. My poor daughter bore the brunt of it, but her daughty could only giggle and say {euch, what a bad smell the horse is making]

There are a lot of interesting streets in central Alexandria, often linking the larger streets parallel to the Corniche. Shops don't open until well after 10am , and street pedlars and small kiosks abound. It allows you to wander and window shop, so that you know where to go to later if there is something you especially want to buy.

The evening before we left Alexandria there was a brilliant red sun at sunset. The rest of the sky was not too spectacular, but I decided to record it nonetheless. But all the pictures came out with a normal coloured sun, the blood-red colour did not capture. A pity as it was amazing.