We stood outside the airport at about 05:30 with quite a few people asking if we wanted a taxi and I could see Andy’s stress levels rocket. He has a thing about journeys – they stress him out – and we were in a foreign country and we had read that Taxi drivers will really try it on, and a price needs to be haggled and agreed on before you get in. I decided I would take over and take the stress away from him. I approached a taxi driver got the price down from 50 LE each to 150 LE for the four of us and I was pretty sure this was way too much but for the sake of just getting there I agreed. He cheekily helped himself to another 20 or 30 LE tip too so we paid about 180 LE and I now know that it should have been about 50 LE altogether. Oh well, we live and learn!
We got to the hotel and we got our rooms and we were really pleased! The rooms were in a good position and our rooms we close to each other. The only problem was the tiredness…it was about 6am (4am in England) and we had travelled thru the night. Lissa decided to go to bed and we decided to jump in the pool and get breakfast – then we too went to bed. I hate doing that – you wait for your annual holiday for a year, you have anticipation as you count down the weeks, you have the last couple of days packing and getting excited…you travel all the way there, and….you go to bed!
Anyway – when we were all rested we decided to get the hotel taxi to the sister hotel as that is where there is access to the beach. I was surprised how close it was but waaaaaayyyy to hot to have walked it!
Every year we have this competition – who will be first in the sea (fully emerged not just a paddle) and Connor had boasted lots about how he would be the first this year. I joke about it and claim I’ll be the first but in reality I am massively competitive and desperately wanted to be this first in!! As it happened Connor wussed out and didn’t want to jump in – so I easily did it – followed by Lissa and eventually Connor got himself down the steps. I put on my mask and put my head into the water – and WOW!!!! I couldn’t believe it – the water was so clear and there were huge Parrot fish of green and blue, and Zebra fish and Angel fish etc.. It was like pressing your face up against a tropical fish tank! It truly was everything I had hoped it would be! We were all amazed!! I couldn’t wait to get diving!
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