So off travelling again and we announce our first weekend mini break! An excuse to see Kate, eat chips and chocolate and have a weekend away was too much. We got the 6am eurostar from ashford. mel as always managed to fall asleep immediately and wake up on arrival in Brussels. She was rather disappointed as she felt that this did not qualify as going to a different country We spent the day walking around Brussels - seeing grand place, manneken pis and admirin...

So the last blog entry - On Mel's birthday we went to the pyramids. We took 2 camels around the pyramids and Mel wore her bellydancer headdres birthday present. As the camels sat down and stood up we both tried desperately to stay on! For dinner our lovely egyptian guide took us for a buffet at a restaurant where they were making a movie. We met Fifi Abdul - the most famous belly dancer - everyone was very excited she was there and we tried to be excited as the...

So we arrived at alexandria at 1am and then realised it was 2am because of the time change. We got a taxi to our hotel to find that they had given our room away and only had a single room so we squished in! The next day we visited the citadel, the horrible aquarium which had tiny tanks with turtles in them and then bought sunglasses for £1 each! Today we wet diving on the Great Lighthouse. The water was absolutely freezing! However it was very cool to see the ...

So after another police escort we headed to dahab. This place is very tourist driven but a nicer place than sharm-al-sheik. We had a very cheap room in a nice hotel and spent a lot of time on the sofa cushions in the bar overlooking the beach. We did 5 dives here and Mel saw her first octopus - yeah! There are so many fish around you it is like bveing in an aquarium although there are not as many big things to see as in other places. We swam through holes and ca...

 Egypt has one of the strongest cultures we have experienced but that has not always been a good experience. There are tourist areas and huge nile cruise ships with westerners in bikinis right next to the towns where you can see no inch of female skin. It is very difficult to combine the two and we get a lot of comments from local men - so far Stu has not sold Mel for 1000 camels as offered! Unless we are in the very touristy areas all the restuarants are fill...