JAMBO!! (hello) everyone, Quick one before we update with some videos and photos. Thanks to all that e-mailed asking if we're OK - wer'e fine! We finally dragged ourselves away from London's cosy atmosphere and faced our first "test" at Heathrow airport when they told us we need return flights... we said we're driving, they said "oh" we waited, they checked they said "no" then we asked them to check again - they said "OK, y...

Ok, so we are still in London... but we are definately leaving tomorrow! Thanks again to the Meirings who let us invade their beautiful home for 4 weeks - that in itself deserves a medal!

London Calling Cairo Airport - Tuesday 00:30am: "I am sorry, but we cannot allow on this flight." I thought I had heard wrong. "Your Schengen visa has expired and you will not be allowed to transit through 2 European countries." "But we don't want to stay there; we will only be in transit! Look, here are our connecting flights all the way to London!" "Doesn't matter," he says, "it looks like you are going to Rome from...

When everyone always says that the Red Sea has some of the best diving in the world, they are seriously not exaggerating. We decided to go to Dahab, not expecting anything of the town itself and hoping to do a couple of dives while were there. But once we arrived in Dahab we realized that we had found our little oasis in Egypt. Dahab is Koh Samui (without the people) meets Arabian Nights - coastline studded with floor-cushion strewn restaurants, shisha pipes, fre...

We woke up refreshed after a night on the train and were served breakfast in our compartment by our very friendly steward. Right toffs we are! The Egyptian diet presented itself in its full glory again with 4 types of bread, 3 types of jam and a cheese triangle. It filled the gap, we washed it down with some teaand saddled up our backpacks for our next adventure. Aswan is in the southern-most city in Egypt that can be accessed independently - any further towards...