Not a lot to write about for the final day. We checked out around midday and had a bit of an explore in the afternoon. The beach near the hotel is fantastic and the stuff in the rock pools very interesting. Hermit crabs, brightly-coloured fish, black starfish, spiny anemones… Really cool. We also found the [...]

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We had some simple aims in the morning – go souvenir shopping and have food in the nearby(ish) KFC and McDonald’s. The latter was my fault. I try to get a meal in each of them in a new country if they have them. Egypt has both and as luck would have it there was [...]

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[More pics of the diving can be found in my Egypt Flickr set] Wow. I just spotted this as I was editing my drafts before posting and this is the thousandth post on this blog, after starting way back in January 2006! Thanks to everyone for reading what I’ve put up and – even more [...]

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[More pics, including a fair few more from Karnak, in my Egypt Flickr set] Really early start (5am pickup) for the Luxor trip. We booked this before we left via a company called Sharm Club and I’d be happy to recommend them based on the day we had. Their prices were very competitive also, and [...]

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Today was Little Miss’s turn to come down with sunburn and she didn’t react as well to it as her brother, likely as she’s old enough to contextualise it and panic about it. We had quad biking booked for the afternoon which she was really looking forward to – probably more than anything else in [...]

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[more photos from the diving in the Egypt set on Flickr] I had an early start as today I had booked two dives in the Red Sea with Emperor Divers, who’d bent over backwards to arrange everything for us before we came out. I have dived in the Red Sea before (a handful of shore [...]

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We kicked back and got stuff organised for the rest of the week today. We booked quad biking, camel trek/stargazing and finalised our diving trips. We jad already booked a trip to Luxor from home. Prices are definitely more expensive on resort than booking in advance. The Luxor trip was far cheaper booked over internet [...]

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Even at Glasgow Airport, I was making last-minute arrangements for our holiday in Sharm el-Sheikh. Finally the email came through from Emperor Divers to say that they had our details and I could pay for the courses and dives we had organised. Yay for mobile broadband and a smart phone! This was my first “family” [...]

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