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I live in California. I will be visiting Egypt in March (Alexandria) with my fiance. What kind of gift should I bring for his family? They are fairly well off. I don't want to be too cheap, yet I can't afford to break the bank. I have a very good relationship with them (emails, phone, online chats...) The family includes women in their 60's, women in their 20's, babies, and various children under 7 (girls and boys).
Also, what is the weather like in March in Alexandria?
I appreciate your help.
Demiana Member # 2710
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Try consulting fiance first. He has the best outlook on both you're sceneries. I would consider not-done things like giving figurative objects to strict muslims.
I am a bit jealous of you, I always wanted to visit Alex in March, but we did stick to summerholidays. Unless it rains it should be a perfect wheather. I brought for my coptic orthodox FIL. Bunches of chocolates, souvenirs like ashtrays and plates on the wall (Dutch china with mills, farmers and cows!:-), personal stuff like hypo-allergene bodymilk for my MIL and mosquito-candles for those living on the farm. Black silk shawls for widows. Religious objects from Jerusalem and Rome. Children: colourbooks and pencils. For more close relatives dolls with clothes, electric toys, a countingmachine for a schoolboy, whatever is 'cool' at the moment like 'Bidaman' now or a 3D picturebook of Harry Potter. I get my SIL several hairpins and alike. Little golden sewingpurses for my MIL's with this handy thing to pull a thread through a needle. Several glasses who are very cheap here sometimes for MIL. And always a photobook for my MIL with pictures of us and the children and my parents, brothers and sisters and daily life here.
Demiana
catlover Member # 7982
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Yes, definately consult first! I read on here somewhere that clothes were always acceptable so I texted my BF (who I had only met once before when we first met) to ask if he would like a football shirt (he's really into English football) and if so which team and the next day he said sorry he had deleted the text accidentally - so I texted again and no answer so I figured I had made a booboo of some sort. When I saw him he explained he had felt offended but realised I didn't mean to offend him so he didn't know what to do so he pretended I hadn't asked. He thought I was trying to say 'you're from Egypt you're too poor to buy your own clothes' whereas in England a lot of men rush out every year and buy the latest football shirt for £50 or whatever regardless of whether they need a new shirt!
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