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,…
It has certainly been a fantastic four and a half months, with so many experiences and sights. It wasn’t an easy decision to come back earlier than planned, but it is only by five weeks. The most common question that I’ve been asked whilst travelling around and now that I’m back is what was my…
This is a list of all the items from my travels. What I consider to have been the most useful I have indicated with a (*) and where relevant for which part of the trip. The following items were carried home in my main ruck sack (75lt Karrimor Panther). Everything in the main compartment was…
Saturday 21st June 2008 We were up at 5:45am and on the train by ten to seven. It was almost as busy as during the off-peak times during the week except that everyone was in casual clothes apart from a school girl. We made it to the 7:15 Narita express and got off at terminal…
Friday 20th June 2008 We were up relatively early this morning and were at Ueno station before nine. We looked for the Shinkansen services to Tokyo, but couldn’t find any so got our usual Yamanote line train. We made it in time for the 9:26 Kodama service to Odawara where we paid 300 Yen each…
Thursday 19th June 2008 The overnight train was not the most comfortable I’ve been on and the top bunk was really hot. We both woke up at about six and heard loads of announcements, but of course didn’t understand them. At quarter to seven the Japanese guy in our compartment spoke to me and explained…
Wednesday 18th June 2008 We were up fairly late, had breakfast and packed up our stuff. We decided against staying in Sasebo for the afternoon so went to the station and changed our booking to the next available train to Hakata. After finding three lots of lockers completely full we finally managed to find an…