Sultana Village Nuweiba

... real time and in distant recollection, and third person for the key town figures, keeping the pace steady yet syncopated. The recurrent motif of birds is generously sprinkled without saturation the narration, just enough to make you more cognizant of their morning calls on the beach of the Sinai.

Most of all, setting the narrative at the level of a town makes the impact of the relocating entire swaths of a populace more real than any other ...

... several other dishes.

After the meal they drove me back to the train station and there eldest son who is studying to be a doctor waited with me for a couple of hours. Out of his entire family he was the only one who spoke almost fluent English; he told the reason for this was that for 2 hours 6 days a week he went to English class. The work ethic in developing countries always seems far greater than in the west, where the ...

... juices were AMAZING!!!!

Well the first day we didn't really do that much, Katherine read her book, I played some pool, later in the afternoon a few of us decided to go snorkling and it was nice. However alot of the coral was dead which was a bit sad to see but it was nice seeing some reef fish. Had a nice diner that night and then we decided to get the group to play cards, well it was Warlords and Scumbags Egyptian style......Pharohs and Slaves. It ...

... few minutes and away we go! Snorkelling was actually a bit harder than I remembered it and I admit I had trouble breathing at first because I was panicking from how deep the ocean was below! I got over it pretty quick though, pride intact... The group finally bonded a bit in the hotel pool, which a relief as our group is very quiet and shy, like most canadians. One girl got drunk and provided easy ...

... To describe what we do, I'll start by saying that for everything, from dressing ourselves in the morning to using the bathroom, we get timed on my commander's stopwatch. If we're late, it's so far been push-ups and early-morning wake-up, or even late-night guard duty. I received that once for 3 AM, which further reduced the amount of sleep I got from the 6 hours mimimum that the army is legally required to allow us after 18 hours of non-stop drilling and obedience ...

... but still a way from the truck. Thought that was a bit odd. Turns out another minibus also stopped on the other side of the road and two German girls hopped from that minibus to ours, and we drove off again. When we were going to Mount Sinai the other night we passed a broken down car at 12.30 in the morning and we didn't stop then either. Maybe it's not a friendly enough place to see if they were ok. Especially at night when there were no cars on the road.

Nuweiba, Red Sea and Sinai, Egypt gazhams

... OK, so that part maybe isn't so authentic Irish, though the singing and having a good time are), and everyone loved them. Despite the look of the pictures, I promise the children did not drink anything more than milk ! VERY EARLY Saturday morning (5:30 --early even for us !) we crossed the border into Taba, Egypt (another beautiful resort town) and set off through more amazing desert (the Sinai) for St. Catherine's Monastery and the ...

To fill you in... After leaving Luxor we returned to Cairo via overnight seater train.  We were told they upgraded to sleeper for next year, but besides the cold cabin it was not a bad way to travel.  I put on the eye patch and brought out the neck pillow and slept pretty well besides the rude 2am awakening for ticket check.  Unless we had hopped on and immediately pretended to be sound asleep I would say it was probably pretty obvious that we had ...

... considering our rooms were EP40 per night, it seemed a little steep. We had met two other couples and we all agreed that this was extortion so we would have to find a way around it if possible. We woke at 2am to get a good jump on other hikers and our plan was to find a busload of package tourists to blend into as we passed through the gate then sneak into the dark. With these groups, the tour guide takes care of all expenses while the group just gets told where to go ...

... were exchanged and after a quick spot of joviality about Dublin & Guinness (no mention of U2) we were on our way, pretty sure that Irish-Egyptian relations were on a good footing (or at the very least a firmer footing than they were 24 hours previous).

· Timing
About an hour ago, as we were sitting here waiting for the okay to board the ferry, an Egyptian tourism official approached us requesting we fill in a survey ...