back to work

Back to work on the Bristol lecture. I had too much fun last night and this morning walking in a neighborhood not far from here but not on my usual route. On last night’s route I had the feeling I’d run into somebody unexpected, and did.

Despite being a city of many millions, it’s a fairly small world in terms of the number of places where I’d often go, often eat, etc. That’s probably an effect of the highly stratified class structure here. It’s a safe and welcoming city and one can go just about anywhere and be treated with great warmth. But the sorts of restaurants in which I would usually eat, modest by Western standards, are out of price range for the average Egyptian. As a result, you end up running into people you know all the time.