I am battling to get back into the swing of things, and so many things can change so quickly when you are not watching…
Dad and Margs came to visit – we spent 4 days being tour guides in Cairo (well, 2 days and 2 evenings being tour guides). It’s quite strange having to do that – I wasn’t sure what to show them – there’s just so much out there. We ended up sending them to the Egyptian Museum, where they managed to pick up a good tour guide by chance, and then sent them to the Pyramids for the day with a tour guide that was recommended to us (note a day at the Pyramids is not for those scared of heat and dust!)
The rest of the time we went to our favourite restuarants, had a picnic sailing down the Nile, and played some golf.
Then we were treated by Dad to a week at the Four Seasons in Sharm el Sheikh – sheer bliss! It is a green oasis of an hotel in the middle of a vast desert, with views from the rooms through palm trees onto a sea that is such a startling blue that it doesn’t look like a sea at all.
We spent our time scuba diving and lounging at the pool and eating and drinking and sleeping.
I never thought I actaully liked scuba diving (thought the effort of getting to the bottom of the ocean far outweighed the enjoyment once down there), but I have never experienced such hassle free diving with such a large reward at the end of the rainbow (rays, amazing gulleys of colourful corral on either side, stone fish, lion fish, glass fish - all things that look cool to an amateur diver)
It also helps that at the Four Seasons they make diving so hassle free – all you have to do is walk to the beach and present yourself so that someone can pull your wetsuit on for you and gently lower you onto the bottom of the ocean.
We spent a day as the Ras Mohammed national park on board the Four Seasons boat (I will remember her name – I will, I will). It was the most opulent day ever – and I loved it!
But generally a brilliant week, with lots of down time to relax and take stock of things…
(I can’t remember exactly what I meant by saying that things change so quickly – probably something along the lines of the fact that I came back to a new boss… Apologies, this post was started a while ago, and never published – and now I am playing catch up again!)
