Innsbruck - here despite it never being on my to-see list

As ususal in the Middle East, my morning routine is to go into the hotel lounge and read the local paper as I caffeinate for the day. The Egptian Mail English version caters to foreigners and has fairly generic offerings. Ther is a column that could be called Darwin Awards & laughs off of other's misfortune. Today we have a picture of palm trees, with the caption of "His last date" and the warning to be careful when climbing palms. A date picker fell to his death while picking dates. Other noteworthy deaths included the suicide of a man who hung himself with his belt when his family refused to let him marry his cousin. A carpenter died when he fell out of bed and cracked his skull. Another man was killed by his neighbor when they got into a fight over their children playing loudly in the street.

Side topics included the unusual lax attitude of not cracking down on lover's holding hands at Lover's Lane at the Cairo University but there is still a ban on men and women sitting together in public areas of the campus. Tomorrow the paper will be full of quotes from the Quran as Ramadan begins in full swing.