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Just back from sunny Egypt (thought the sun goes down and it is dark shortly after waking up time at this time of year!) Pleasantly surprised by confirmation of my 2006 ticket allocation from the ACO. All in order, I just have to find €1000 or so... I wonder if they take Egyptian £s? The grasping waiters & bus drivers didn't quite manage to clean me out...  |
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Werner
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« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2005, 10:37:18 am » |
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Hi Smokie,
what brought you to Egypt? I've been there twice this year for scuba-diving. Do you also dive or was it a cultural sight-seeing trip?
Cheers
Werner
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« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2005, 01:37:13 pm » |
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Just a holiday - Sharm el Sheik. 7 days by the pool - plus some snorkelling and blasting about the desert in a dune buggy!  |
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« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2005, 01:38:57 pm » |
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Cor, how the other half live  |
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« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2005, 02:49:31 pm » |
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Just a holiday - Sharm el Sheik. 7 days by the pool - plus some snorkelling and blasting about the desert in a dune buggy! Some of the best coral reefs, aquatic life and wrecks in the Red Sea and you didn't go scuba diving!!!  |
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« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2005, 05:19:50 pm » |
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I didn't realise what great fun diving (well, snorkelling!) would be Steve...
Planning the same trip (but longer) for next Nov/Dec already, will probably include diving (a lesson was included at the hotel!)
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« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2005, 09:28:15 pm » |
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Has anyone else had their allocation  I have a bad feeling about this again....bet I've got more blooming BSJ tickets.. |
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« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2005, 12:52:49 am » |
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Ah yes, I forgot this thread wasn't about diving... What's a BSJ like anyway? |
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« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2005, 09:10:19 am » |
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Just a holiday - Sharm el Sheik. 7 days by the pool - plus some snorkelling and blasting about the desert in a dune buggy! Some of the best coral reefs, aquatic life and wrecks in the Red Sea and you didn't go scuba diving!!! thistlegorm perhaps?  by contrast, just got back diving at Chang in Thailand. quite disappointing... except for the odd whale shark of course! |
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« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2005, 09:57:40 am » |
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except for the odd whale shark of course! ...odd whale shark .... Lucky bastard, it took me hundreds of dives and more than 15 years before I saw my first one, that was also in Thailand, west coast, Aandaman Sea |
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« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2005, 10:18:35 am » |
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I dived off a liveaboard in the Maldives this May and saw 7 of the blighters in one day! We managed to snorkel with 4 of them!
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« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2005, 01:46:01 pm » |
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Ah yes, I forgot this thread wasn't about diving... What's a BSJ like anyway? Well it may not be so much fun next year my Microwave broke last year so there won't be a CD roast unless anyone has a microwave they can donate. Next year I'm hoping to do a more adventures Lawn job. See if I can compete with this :-) http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/189/189913_city_star_earns_his_stripes.htmlt. |
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« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2005, 01:57:58 pm » |
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Tom,
What could be more adventurous than mowing the lawn the morning after JPC's cocktail party when your blood had been replaced with Tropicoma and parts of you were dead?
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« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2005, 02:00:22 pm » |
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Wow. Ticket allocation to whale sharks to microwave ovens to tropicoma in 12 posts. Not bad.
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« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2005, 03:48:39 pm » |
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Tom,
What could be more adventurous than mowing the lawn the morning after JPC's cocktail party when your blood had been replaced with Tropicoma and parts of you were dead?
Well I'm still on the lookout for a supply of LOX. See http://www.doeblitz.net/ghg/ for the sort of thing we could do. It blows the socks of fire eating. t. |
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