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Dinner in Luxor | Murphy’s Irish Pub – A Little Oasis in Luxor

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After reaching our hotel, our guide gave us an hour and a half to relax before meeting at the lobby. I utilized this time to take a shower and have tea.

Then we all met at the lobby and waited for everyone else to come. Some of our tour mates decided not to go, so there were close to 10 of us going to the Irish pub.

After walking a few blocks, we reached Murphy’s Irish Pub. An ordinary pub, nothing fancy, but in Aswan downtown finding an Irish pub felt like finding a little oasis. Their pub had 2 floors. We all settled on upstairs.

Although I saw a Guinness tap on both bars located upstairs and downstairs, they were just show and not connected to anything. The pub mainly serves local beers and alcohol. I didn’t get any beer, but tried a Coke. Beers were a lot cheaper compared to a pub in Canada. One of our tour mates who was from London kept drinking lots of beer, it was too cheap not to drink a lot.

I saw a pool table and there was even a DJ. We all felt comfortable and were chatting about our experiences in Egypt so far, and other stuff in general.

I ordered a mixed kebab with rice for 150 L.E. or about 12 CAD. The food was not great, but good enough. Food prices felt cheap, but I figured it was most likely that local Egyptians would pay less than us.

The pub was not crowded. I saw only one customer besides us. After finishing our dinner, we stayed for a while before returning to our hotel. On my way back, I noticed a big, antique-looking bookstore called Aboudy next to the pub. If I was alone, I would go in and spend some time browsing the bookstore. It looked like they had a good collection of books, postcards, and other interesting stuff.

The next day, we would leave our hotel at 6:30 to spend a busy day exploring.