Heads Held High

I haven’t written about Arsenal for some time, I know. We went into the match knowing we had all to do in this leg having been beaten at home. Well, we know Arsenal. They never make things easy for themselves. Everyone had written us off and to be honest, I was struggling to be optimistic and realistic about it.

What do you know, we scored in the third minute thanks to Giroud who scored his first goal since the match against Liverpool. Let’s hope the goal drought is over now although Theo’s doesn’t seem to end yet.

Strangely, we managed to contain the home side with Fabianski in goal for the first time in over a year rarely troubled. Even the defence was encouraging!

Koscielny added a late second after the early first and for a while it looked like we could have done it - had we not made mistakes towards the end. Still, it was dignity in elimination, victory in defeat and a rare humbling of the Bundesliga runaway winners.

Alexandrian Aristocats

We met A LOT of cats in Alexandria and I had great fun taking pictures of them.

 At the Citadel of Qaitbay. I was immediately drawn to the fort and that ginger cat there

 Another ginger cat

We didn’t enter the Citadel much to my dismay so I contented myself with taking pictures of the cats there. The others were busy shopping 

 Can you spot a lone shaggy cat here?

This is not a photobomb. The cat was supposed to sit nicely there but had another mind of its own 

 Cats waiting patiently for some scrap

 Catching some forty winks

 This is at the waterfront at Montazah

Cairene Cats

We didn’t come across many cats in Cairo unfortunately. Here were some that we did encounter.

At the shop at Pharaonic Village

At Khan el-Khalili

Keihanshin Kitties

Here are some kitties (real or otherwise, heh) that we met and saw in Keihanshin area (Kyōto, Ōsaka and Kōbe).

We spotted this kitty while waiting for the Ōsaka Suijyo Bus (Aqua-liner) near Ōsaka-jo Pier

He then led us to his friend

 Near the Osaka-jo Pier

 At Tenjimbashi-suji Shopping Street in Ōsaka, the longest shopping street in Japan

 Hungry cat peeping into a restaurant in Kyōto

 Signboard at Kitano Ijinkan-dori, Kōbe

 A cross-eyed cat we saw across the street from Kōbe Mosque