Holiday report - Part 1 impressions of Sharm el Sheikh

[spoox]

I went on holiday to Egypt with _abby_, jonnytuna, pinksarah and a number of other people whom I had not yet met. The plan was that Abby, myself, Stewart and Pete G would learn to dive while the others went off diving on their own. We would meet again when we had passed our exams and were certified water-safe, and dive as a group

Comments

[panzermensch101]

"The more pushy owners will attempt to engage you in any kind of conversation,"

We had much the same problem in Turkey, the sellers try and engage you in conversation by saying something they think is relevant. They would first try and figure out where were from..

" You American? We have hotdog, you want hotdog "

" You England? Are you England? We have HP sauce, you want PG Tips tea drink ?"

" Are you Australia, we have TV cricket for you "

The first few days we would stupidly answer them, and have to inform that the fact the sold PG TIPS wasnt enought to make us want to eat in their filth bag of a resturant.

By the end of our holiday we were replying with " We're from the Falklands " . That stumped them... and left a wonderfully puzzled look on their chops.

[mark13]

When I went to Egypt, there was the option of spending the second half of the holiday in Luxor or Sharm - I am constantly reminded how glad I was to have plumped for the former.

I remember now what one of our guides told us - the three most useful things to be able to say in Arabic are 'no', 'go away', and 'look over there, American tourists'. :)

[blackberryqueen]

Very interesting! I look forward to the next chapter!

PS I love the icon!

xxxx

[jonnytuna]

What really got me is that Sarah and I had our 'dangerous' bottles of water confiscated, but when he sat down in the plane, Garry realised he still had his dive knife with him.

[spoox]

Hahahah! That is absolutely ridiculous! They were probably busy staring at one of the many attractive female members of our group, rather than at the x-ray screen.