After another breakfast of french toast, beef sausages, beans and omellete I had my last hour of windsurfing lessons. The wind had died down significantly from yesterday and I managed to stay standing with the 3m sail, though according to Ady my tacking still looked pretty amateur! With that finished we walked around the beach…

We were up fairly late and went to reception to meet Ahmed’s friend to pick up the DVD before breakfast. We lined up another day on the beach, but after a while I decided to get windsurfing lessons and spent an hour on the board with a small sail. Ady went off snorkelling and spotted…

We were up at 6:30am again, but this time others did turn up and the boat was crammed with Russians, a few Germans and two Potugese ladies. It was a choppy ride up to our first stop north of Makadi Bay. I donned the wetsuit that I had decided to hire from the dive centre,…

We were up at 6:30am and grabbed breakfast before meeting at the dive centre at 7:45am. We were given a lift round to Tia Heights and once there walked out onto the pier. It was freezing in the wind and we waited around until the guy with us worked out what boat we were on.…

We didn’t get up to a lot, but we did walk around the bay as far as the large sign for Makadi Center in the Tia Heights complex. On the way we had to pursuade all the guards that we were only going for a walk. Back at Domina we booked up a snorkelling trip…

Ditto Thursday. I finished my first book – the brilliant Penguins Stopped Play by Harry Thompson and then moved on to The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton.

Pick-up from the hotel was a very sensible 11:30am today and we were transferred from our hotel to Safari Land by minibus. First activity was to fleece us for scarves at twice the price we were told by our rep (perhaps we should have taken heed of his bartering suggestions!), but after that it was…

Today was another day of food, beach, food, beach, shower, food, drink, bed.

We were up just before dawn at 5:30am (Immodium to hand) and met in reception for our coach pick-up (£5 extra from Makadi Bay rather than the tour start of Hurghada despite being closer to Luxor!). Prior to boarding we collected our breakfast packs from reception (we were leaving before the 7am to 10am serving…

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.