The sun starts to get lower by 4:00 and our neighbhourhood seems to get a bit more active before sunset. Dogs bark, kids shout, and more people walk along the streets. Of course there's the bustle of people who've finished work going home. It seems as though many pick up things for dinner on the way to their houses.
We, too, often choose this time to go out for errands. Today, we went over to the other side at a bit before 5:00 and sunset. I love sitting on the big, national ferry boats. Three run during peak hours and leave every 15 minutes or so, give or take. We always scramble up the worn stairs to the upper deck. The trip across is only a matter of minutes but during this part of the day, the little journey across is relaxing.
We thought to walk to Ragab & Sons Supermarket. There were a few things to pick up; however, we came back with $US30 of stuff. The two bags between us weren't heavy. When we walk there and back it's about 5 or 6 kilometers. That's a perfect amount of daily exercise. We had never really checked out what was downstairs, so we wandered around a while. We got back to the villa after about two hours.
From our side, we can look back to the corniche of Luxor's East Bank. These little, private boats can also take passengers across the Nile River.
