Pictures from Leif

My mother's friend Leif Pareli sent me a number of scanned photographs that he took in Cairo in 1976 and 1977. Here is the first of them (yes, I intend to stretch this out as much as possible). This one was taken in front of the building at 3, Mohamed Sidqi Pasha St., Bab-el-Louq, Cairo. This is the same address where the story of the sparkler and the chicken man took place. The man in the back is my former stepfather, Nadir, for those of you who do not know him. The object in my hand is a Christmas present I received that year; it was a plastic calendar that operated mechanically by pressing spring-loaded buttons.



This one was taken within minutes of the first. The good-looking Nordic man is Leif himself. The picture must have been taken by Nadir.



Incidentally, Ragia says that everything mom is wearing in the photos, including mom's red suede jacket, is back in fashion. So is Leif's jacket!

The photographs were scanned by Leif. If you click on them, you will get the photos in the sizes that he sent me.

You can see Leif's website at http://home.online.no/~pareli.