Rudders at Home

Paul and I recently went to Tunisia for some fun in the sun, North African style. We spent 10 days there, and enjoyed it immensely, despite the last three days in which I was dreadfully ill. (Yes, I needed the drama of “dreadful” ) But I’m over that now. We went mainly for a relaxing beach holiday, and Tunisia being on the Med promised that. But it also promised a bit more.

We enjoyed the Med and the pool, spending the majority of the holiday there. Here’s a pic from the casbah in Hammamet.

But we also enjoyed the desert. While we were in Tunisia, we spent two days of trip exploring the country. I believe I’ve seen 75% of that country now. We even spent a night in the desert, under the stars in tents! Pretty nice, I think.

The trip took in El Djem, a well preserved coliseum, and then went on to show us some cave dwellings and places which were Star Wars. We also took in a camel trip, which Paul and I opted out of, but Paul did get some nice Camels for me.

The best part was seeing the sun rise on the Sahara. Yes, yours truly was up at 4:30 am in order to see the sunrise at 10 past five in the morning. And it was worth it. Check it out:

Isn’t that beautiful?

Our trip in the desert ended that day, seeing a beautiful oasis featured in The English Patient.

It was a good trip overall, lovely weather and much more to see than anticipated. There are even more photos in the gallery, if you’d like to gawk a bit more.

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It’s official. I love Egypt. My second visit to the country and I’ve seen a whole new place. Last year, as many of you know, Paul and I went to Luxor and had a fabulous time. This year, Paul and I went to Sharm el-Sheikh and had a fabulous time – again! We’re also playing around with the idea of going back next year.

Egypt is a lovely country. There’s so much to see and do, and the people are extremely friendly. This year, we decided to go to Sharm el-Sheikh for my birthday. (I turned 30, in case anyone missed it.) We just wanted to have a nice and relaxing holiday, and simply put, we did.

Aside from our trip to Jerusalem, we didn’t do much besides hang out on the beach. What a beach it was, too. See how blue that sky is? The water was just as blue, if not even more saturated with color. And the temperature was divine. Our hotel had a pier which you could walk out on and from there you could swim and snorkel to your heart’s desire. I was up like a little kid every day sometime between 6 and 8. Awake and then down to the beach. I loved every minute of it. The whole thing was divine. The sun, the sand, the sea… sigh…

And the snorkeling! The snorkeling was really cool. I’d never been anywhere where you could see so many fish!

Even if a person didn’t swim, you could still see these brightly colored fish while walking down the pier to swim. I’ve never seen anything like it before. Paul and I were in the water so much on this holiday we could have been fish ourselves! We even took a cruise out on to the Red Sea to do some snorkeling away from the hotel.

The trip on the boat was gorgeous as well. We were on the boat for the entire day, and there’s nothing better than lazing around on the sea, having a swim to see some fish every now and then, allowing yourself to relax completely. It was amazing.

So, apart from our trip to Jerusalem, which I’ll tell you about soon, we just had a nice, easy holiday in Sharm el-Sheikh. We did exactly what we wanted to do: Had a beach holiday with a little bit of something extra. It’s incredible to think how different this holiday to Egypt was compared to parts of last year’s trip.

And as I said, it’s official. I love Egypt. Now then, when are we going back??

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Only 20 more days until I go on holiday. I can’t wait. And where are we going this time?

Here, have a look. You’ll be jealous, I promise.

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Yes, I’ve finally gotten our pictures from Egypt sorted through and on the site. They are in two albums, one from the first half and the other from the second half. They’re in the Gallery, so enjoy!

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Clearly, with today being our last full day, we wanted to make the most of it. So, we remained by the pool for the majority of it.  However, because I had ordered a new necklace, one with my name written in Arabic, we did have to get up off our lazy bums and go into town. And to be fair, we did want to check out the Luxor Museum which we had missed before because there wasn’t enough time.

I’m really happy that we did go to Luxor for the museum, in the end. I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to leave the sun, but we were up early and by the pool long enough that it didn’t seem like a sacrifice.  The museum was pretty cool, with a bunch of stuff from Tut’s tomb

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