The whole of today was spent on the beach. Plus I was recovering from a night of sitting on the loo every couple of hours. To add insult to injury we found that the fridge in our room had frozen the strawberries.

Today was spent mainly lounging around, but with the addition of a bit of snorkelling off the beach. We saw a few fish, including cornetfish and puffer fish. In the evening we celebrated Ady’s birthday by getting the shuttle bus into Hurghada and going out to a restaurant in Hurghada marina.

In the morning we caught the shuttle bus into the Sakara district of Hurghada and spent an hour or so walking along the main (tourist) shopping street, Sheriton Road. We bought outselves some “Ripcurl” beach shoes and a couple of t’shirts all for 90 LE, plus dried dates and some fresh strawberries. After the excitement…

Today was to start the theme of most of the holiday of getting up in time for the last hour of breakfast at 9am. We then headed up to reception to the welcome meeting with the rep from hotels4u, but were told that because we had only booked the transfer with them we would need…

Last weekend Ady’s parents drove up to Manchester and picked up Robin (who has gone to live with them for a while whilst he does some training and searches for a job), Phoebe and Lexi (who are going on holiday to “dog boot camp”* for three weeks). So after a hectic four days in work,…