15 April 2011
We left Marsa Alam on Wednesday morning for a very slow drive up the coast, we still have a few days to waste as our Schengen Visa is only valid from 25 April and we will catch the ferry from Alexandria to Venice on 24 April. Quseir is about 130km from Marsa Allem and we stopped to see if we could find a nice hotel for a reasonable price, after having stopped and not being happy with the prices quoted we decided to carry on and then hit the jackpot! We are staying at the Coral-Sun-Beach Resort (have a look at the website www.coral-sun-beach-resort.com )just outside of Safaga and it has been really great and we get three meals a day, a very big change for us. Most of the time when we have been riding hard we only manage to stop for a very light snack round lunch time, but this has had the benefit of weight loss!!!!.
Lots to do at the resort but we are not great people to be entertained and so this afternoon went and hired snorkeling gear and went just off the resort beach, lots of reef and tropical fish, we had had a cold front passing us and so the wind has been blowing and the visablitity has not been great, but a lot better than we are used to at home. Tomorrow we have booked to scuba dive, it will be a shore dive, I haven’t dived for years so hope I cope with it!!
From here we will move up the coast, maybe with one more stop, and hopefully see the Pyramids and Sphinx, and then to Alexandria. So, not much news right now, as we are treating ourselves to a break, and having a good rest.
We will have to have bikes serviced again soon, and will need new tyres, as these sets will have done about 18000 km, not bad for one set, with no punctures, touch wood!!!! Soon we will have to start looking at options for shipping bikes and selves home!!!
We believe that Leigh, our granddaughter, had a wonderful 1st birthday party. Happy birthday Leigh for the 14th! Sorry we missed it. That is one of the problems with a trip like this that so much happens while we are away.
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