Keen to get a bit of colour before we head for Cairo on Sunday, we headed to the beach just a stones through away from our hotel room.  Being so busy planning and moving etc. for the last few weeks, it was lovely to sit, relax, read, take the odd dip and watch the world go by.

The hotel staff suggested not to sitting out in the midday sun.  Taking their advice, we got up at 7am and had breakfast at 8 and were on the beach for 9.  Back in our hotel now and plan to head out again at around 4 for few hours.  Sam is doing what she does best, sleeping!

So far so good.  The local staff here are fantastic, everything is relatively cheap, the weather is scorching but not unbearable once you get used to it, the Red Sea is to die for providing the many snorklers and divers (like us :-))  with an amazing underwater world right next to the beach.  We would highly recommend a holiday to the Red Sea, but somewhere a little quieter that Na’ama Bay, it is very busy. 

Tonight we are heading out for dinner with a Norwegian family we have become friendly with over the past few days, trots permitting.  Know locally as the Faro curse and a topic a great conversation here, we have not met anybody yet who has not had a bout.  Sam and I both have it at the minute as does the Norwegian couple.  The locals say its a result of not drinking enough water – my backside (pardon the pun) – we’ve drank enough water in the last 5 days than we have in the last 5 months.

Probably no more posts now until we head to Cairo, as there is not much more to report – over and out!