Wednesday.

January 8th, 1850, 4pm

Wednesday. I walk alone in Cairo, under a beautiful sun, in the neighborhood between Carameidan and the Boulak Gate (at the corner of the Ezbekieh, left when looking North). I get lost in the back alleys and end up in dead-ends. From time to time I stumble on a square, made of rumbles of houses or rather missing houses - chickens pecking - cats on the walls - quiet, hot, withdrawn life - great impression of the sun when one suddenly gets out of those alleys, so narrow the awnings of the mashrabiyas on opposing houses bump into each other.


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Gustave Flaubert

"Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." [extracts from Flaubert's travel diary written in 1849-1851]

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