Culture in Alex

Finally I got to do one of the things I have been wanting to do in a long time. Yesterday I decided to go and see what Cultural Events does the Alex Library have to offer - ( I also managed to get work to let me go at 8pm!!). Fortunately there was an Independent Bands Festival going on. It was great!!! We went into this massive auditorium, where we could hear a band playing live!!!

It was nothing mega spectacular, but it was nice to be able to sit back and listen to live music again!!!! I did not realize how much I missed it! It was a sort of soft rock music, maybe close to lounge music. You have the same things a normal band would have, though with a touch of the middle east, you had a guy playing the flute and another playing different types of tabul's - in addition to the usual drums, bass guitars, and electric pianos.

There was no singing as such but sort of sounds, which made it very relaxing. It felt as though I was in Belgium again. I could hear a lot of French and Arabic amongst the people present, and they were all wearing funky clothes - the type I have experienced in Belgium when I went to the cool places!

I wish I could do this more often - if only I had a 9-5 job :( !!!

Purvi and I then went to the one and only Mohammed Ahmed and feasted ourselves on homos, shakshuka and lentil soup!!!!!