Senior ELF in Western Anatolia

Cairo Part 7: Leaving the Windsor

On Saturday. we learned we would be picked up and moved out of the Windsor to the Flamenco. The cars can not get through. so we check back into the hotel. The next morning, we prepare to leave the Windsor again, and this time, it works. The car we are picked up in is a small taxi with two people already in it. Windsor staff help when one of them (Sameer) brings his car. We say goodbye to the staff.

So many bags - such a small car,

The little mosque and kiosk outside the hotel look very different by this point.

Cairo Part 6: Back to the Windsor

The central symbol of the Cairo experience - the afternoon we were locked in the Windsor.

Tear gas is fired. We all experience it for the first time.

We prepare to leave the Windsor for the first time, but efforts to get us out failed as cars dispatched to the Windsor could not get through. We check back into the Windsor and wait another day to see if conditions are better.

Richard from Kings College, London.

More Sakara

Sakara and chips

Watching Al Jazeera in the Windsor lounge

Cairo Part 5: ELFs phone home

We took computers to the lounge and discovered that nobody could get online. Phones have already been cut off, and we learn the internet has been cut, as well. Internet remains off, but phones come on again. One by one, we call home from the office of the hotel owner. He times our calls with his cell phone.

Ana

Susan

Michael

Martha

Cairo Part 4: First protest groups on Friday

We learn that things are going to start getting rough after noon prayers on Friday. No tourist spots are open. We go up to the hotel roof to observe after returning from the Antiquities Museum.