On the shininess of other places
A few thoughts on travel in 2023
6 min readJul 26, 2023
Photo by Michele Bigley
It’s after 11pm in a Cairo airport hotel. The cafeteria’s packed. Women in a rainbow of hijabs and niqabs carry roasted chicken and kefta, rice, tahina and fruit from the buffet to husbands and children studying smartphones. A gaggle of drunken Russians in tank tops showing off hairy midsections spit…
