gbb
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- Location
- Peterborough
Egypt, inevitably Sharm El Sheikh, Naama bay.
40 degrees plus, every day for 2 weeks, it began to wear a bit after a while TBH. Still, i'd sooner have a hot one than a wet one eh !
4 star hotels dont rate with a Spanish 4 star for instance, although perhaps that was just my hotel. Staff were excellent, food was 'ok', a bit bland, but one highlight was the day they did burger and chips...i never saw the resturant so full...Italian, Egyptian, russian and british holidaymakers clamouring for a burger. That maybe indicated it wasnt just me who found the food bland and samey.
Naama Bay, not big, not small, typically full of bars and trinket shops....but all in all ok.
One day at the aqua park (not the Cleo one) which was good, nowhere near as busy as similarl parks in Spain, but the rides were just as good.
Got the sh1ts inevitably
and had one day where i really didnt feel well, but it passed.
Snorkelling..out of this world. Naama beach is ok but busy, we spent all our time at Hadaba beach...OUTSTANDING.
You swim in water bristling with so many varieties of fish and coral its mind boggling. I saw Lion Fish (also called turkey fish), highly poisonous, like a bulldog with feathers , Blue Spotted Stingray (ooer, gave them a wide berth but at the same time fascinated to see them), Groupers of different kinds, bloody massive some of them, trigger Fish...so many beautiful fish its impossible to remember them all, they literally swim right in front of your mask. Fabulous. |Imagine going to an english beach...1000 people per square yard it seems. Hadaba beach, maybe a mile long,(relatively) beautiful, crystal clear waters...hardly a sole on it around lunchtime.
Then the downside...bloody shopkeepers
. Evey trick in the book to try to het you to part with money. even though i've worked in Egypt and knew what to expect, it still got on you after a short while.
No escape from the heat in the evenings and night...if you went into town at say 10pm..its like walking into an open oven...jesus.
One thing was confirmed in my mind, a conclusion i'd been coming to for some years. the British get a slating when abroard. We're no worse than the Russians, Italians or Greeks i see year after year. They're rude, arrogant, mardy and a general pain in the ar$e. The russians get a real slating...ive heard it personally from the Spanish, Cypriots and now the Egyptians....no-one likes the Russians.
How was yours ?
40 degrees plus, every day for 2 weeks, it began to wear a bit after a while TBH. Still, i'd sooner have a hot one than a wet one eh !
4 star hotels dont rate with a Spanish 4 star for instance, although perhaps that was just my hotel. Staff were excellent, food was 'ok', a bit bland, but one highlight was the day they did burger and chips...i never saw the resturant so full...Italian, Egyptian, russian and british holidaymakers clamouring for a burger. That maybe indicated it wasnt just me who found the food bland and samey.
Naama Bay, not big, not small, typically full of bars and trinket shops....but all in all ok.
One day at the aqua park (not the Cleo one) which was good, nowhere near as busy as similarl parks in Spain, but the rides were just as good.
Got the sh1ts inevitably
and had one day where i really didnt feel well, but it passed.Snorkelling..out of this world. Naama beach is ok but busy, we spent all our time at Hadaba beach...OUTSTANDING.
You swim in water bristling with so many varieties of fish and coral its mind boggling. I saw Lion Fish (also called turkey fish), highly poisonous, like a bulldog with feathers
, Blue Spotted Stingray (ooer, gave them a wide berth but at the same time fascinated to see them), Groupers of different kinds, bloody massive some of them, trigger Fish...so many beautiful fish its impossible to remember them all, they literally swim right in front of your mask. Fabulous. |Imagine going to an english beach...1000 people per square yard it seems. Hadaba beach, maybe a mile long,(relatively) beautiful, crystal clear waters...hardly a sole on it around lunchtime.Then the downside...bloody shopkeepers
. Evey trick in the book to try to het you to part with money. even though i've worked in Egypt and knew what to expect, it still got on you after a short while.No escape from the heat in the evenings and night...if you went into town at say 10pm..its like walking into an open oven...jesus.
One thing was confirmed in my mind, a conclusion i'd been coming to for some years. the British get a slating when abroard. We're no worse than the Russians, Italians or Greeks i see year after year. They're rude, arrogant, mardy and a general pain in the ar$e. The russians get a real slating...ive heard it personally from the Spanish, Cypriots and now the Egyptians....no-one likes the Russians.
How was yours ?
... and hopefully none of this ... 
... unfortunately, none of this either ... 
... and if we get this ... 
... instead of this ... 
... I'll just head indoors and do some of this ......... 
... or maybe more likely, this ... 
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