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Preliminary Egypt tour

Sunday 5 June

Preliminary Egypt Tour

Distance : 3978.58km

Day 13: Anemone Metropolis with Pharaoh Dive Club

Biking and Diving the Coloured Seas

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Motorcycling and scuba diving represent two great forms of freedom where you can enjoy exposure to nature first hand. If it’s not the wind on your face or experiencing the open air while riding a powerful KTM bike then being underwater with the fish, corals and shipwrecks with a tank on your back is closer still. The Coloured Seas Trip begins in June 2011 in Sharm El Sheikh. Yann Vautrin and John Kean are dive instructors and motorcyclists.

Is Egypt safe?

Sunday 19 June - 35 weeks ago

Bor Safajah , Al Bahr al Ahmar , Egypt

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This is not my question but that of many travelers sizing up the country for a potential visit. The question, of course, has no answer. It is neither yes nor no, the same as for Britain, France or anywhere else on the planet. You can ask whether a piece of diving equipment is safe or an old staircase, but a whole country is far too broad an ‘item’ and has too much complexity to answer in a simple yes or no fashion about the question of safety.

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Day 16: Ain Sukhna to Sharm

Day 16 : Diving in Ain Sokhna Unusual gorgonia for the Red Sea!

Sunday 19 June - 35 weeks ago

As Suways , Egypt

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After the two dives in Ain Suknha, we looked at our watches and it was only 1:30 pm. We were going to stay nearby or in Cairo another evening but Yann pointed out that we could make it to Sharm by early evening if we had a quick getaway. The idea was tempting and even after the hospitality of the Stella Di Mare resort the draw of Sharm was too much to resist.

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Day 15: Stella di Mare, Ain Sukhna

Day 15 : Ain Sokhna Hotel Stella Di Mare Golf course

Saturday 18 June - 35 weeks ago

As Suways , Egypt

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We’d heard about the development in Ain Sukhna only recently from friends in Sharm, but had no idea how vast and well managed this ‘new’ resort was. Of course, living in Egypt for a number of years one might easily think that you know where everything is and what the leading resorts are. It seemed inconceivable that a place like Stella Di Mare (www.stelladimare.com) escaped attention for so long. It is at least ten years old and the name is little indication of its far-reaching guest base who visit from several different countries.

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Day 16: Back in good old T2 (for now)

Martin between Johns

Sunday 19 June - 35 weeks ago

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The Egyptian tour of the Coloured Seas Trip finishes in Sharm El Sheikh on Sunday, 19th June 2011 from 19:30 in T2 Hadaba. We would like to thank our sponsors, the bike and dive clubs, the hotels and the many Egyptian people who have welcomed and assisted us with this trip. In particular we thank Martin our website designer who has dealt with the daily ‘raw material’ of text and photos, turning it all into something that looks way more professional than anything we could ever have hoped to achieve on the road.

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What's in the panniers and on the bike?

Foot pump : Price in Egypt 3 Euro

Saturday 18 June - 35 weeks ago

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After two weeks on the bike some items stuffed in the panniers appeared to be superfluous and some essential. Here is a list of the main things that made the experience possible, mechanically and humanly!

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Day 14: Hurghada to Ain Sukhna

Day 14 : Hurghada to Ain Sohkna Out of benzin on the road side

Friday 17 June - 35 weeks ago

Al Bahr al Ahmar , Egypt

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Quiz nights in ex-pat pubs involve a mish-mash of questions designed to steer around the fact that when you don’t live in your own country anymore the knowledge of subjects like sport, politics and celebrity news often go by the wayside. Music is quite safe, geography features heavily too, because it’s relevant wherever you are, but asking a Swedish diving instructor ‘who is the landlord in the BBC TV series, Eastenders?’ is a little unfair. So, the questions were a little different from what we’re used to in the UK or France. I went to a quiz night in London a couple of years ago and scored one point (it was a question about Egypt!).

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