Coptic Cairo

Richard Blessington, one of our A-level students from St. Helena, came to stay as part of his world tour before he goes to university. He was here for four days and we did the tourist things we have been putting off. On the Thursday Geoff, Richard and Maddy went to the Egyptian Museum, photos of this will appear when I go!

On the Friday we took the metro to Coptic Cairo. These are Egypt's christians and their area of the city was full of old churches and narrow passages. The churches were splendid but very dark inside. The Coptics that were visiting would kiss their hand and then touch every icon/picture in the room. This church is St. Georges Monastery, there is a nunnery attached and lots of art work to do with St. George all over. Statues, paintings, metal work, even a cross stitch picture in one of the churches.

As we wandered Richard picked up a variety of fans, we came across these two lads a couple of times and they finally insisted on having their picture taken, who was I to argue?
Part of the area contained the Coptic Museum which was worth walking round, as we went in they took our cameras off us. So we have no record of the things we saw, people will just have to come out and experience it for themselves.

The air temperature has been falling recently and the air quality has been improving so it was an ideal day to take pictures. Even the clouds were fluffy!
The wrought iron metal work was a big feature of the area and wrapped around it are the rope fairy lights you buy for Christmas. At some time we must go back at night just to see what it looks like.

clock at the metro station