FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE

Now we are more then a week here in Hurghada and are really chilling out. Every day we are at the beach at 9 am, after a nice breakfast, and around 11 I always go for a swim, Chantal and Nicole prefer to snorkel. I swim like a girafe with my head far out of the water because I hate water in my face.

The water is also so salty that it carries you without swimming ! You just lay on the water ! It's great.
Each day the animation team tries to entertain us with more or less success, but one day we had a fruit festival, which was very colorful !



An "orchestra" arrived and played local music



A buffet was dressed beautifully with fruit juices and fruits ! It really looked beautiful.



We ate and drank and it tasted delicious. The main cook of the hotel is the man below right, and as he is so handsome, he has a lot of success with the female guests ! They are whirling around him like mosquitos ! It's funny to observe them, he only has to choose !

I prefer another kind of holiday love ! So kind and cute ! It's Oscar the camel and I think he loves me too !



I bring him apples, oranges and bread and he thanks me blowing in my neck or just nibbling on my fingers with his soft lips. When his owner saw that we went so nicely together, he allowed me to sit on Oscar !



and Oscar sat still and I swang myself in the saddle without help ! Was I proud ! My old bones didn't let me down. I think that's thanks to my daily yoga exercises, that keeps me flexible. People were gathering around us and applauded !



It had cooled down a bit so we took the opportunity to do some Christmas shopping in the Cleopatra Shopping mall.

It is about 15 km far from our hotel and we had to take a taxi. But taxis are so cheap because the fuel price compared to what it costs at home is unbelievable.

The nice thing in this mall is for those who don't like to haggle, all prices are fix. I don't bother, but it takes more time.The girls bought jewelry and spices etc. After two hours or more, we all were exhausted, hired a taxi and returned to the hotel.

The taxi driver drove us as if the devil was behind him, horning all the time and passed right and left or in the middle so we thought the rearview mirrors would break off. He zigzagged through the traffic and the girls were screeming sometimes. I found it funny, the others not!




Each evening when I return to my room I find another masterpiece made out of towels on my bed. !

It's nice to be so spoiled !

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STRAWBERRIES AND MELONS A FRUIT FESTIVAL

Each week a fruit festival took place in our hotel in Egypt. As we stayed two weeks we were lucky to attend two fruit festivals one with strawberries and one week later with melons.





It started by a procession with cooks carrying the enormous tray with the strawberries on, followed by Egyptian musicians



It was very cheerful !



Then the tray was put on a huge table



and people were running to see the event listen to the music and then picked up the strawberry cakes, salads and skewers






I had never seen such a lot of strawberries in my whole life !




Everything was eaten up in no time and the strawberries were delicious, so juicy (but not with water) and tasted the sunshine and real strawberries, not what I find here in our supermarkets !


The following week was the turn of melons. I could watch the preparations from my beachbed



A table with different colored cocktails all with melon juice was dressed and then the tray arrived the same way as the strawberries.



The procession arrives








It really looked very beautiful and the melons were so tasty !! again no comparison to those who are sold labelled "organic" I think only the price is organic, same with the strawberries.





The leader of our animation team had a lot of fun with the musicians and danced, and again everything disappeared very quickly !



and for those who were a little late, there was nothing left !

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - WEDNESDAY HODGEPODGE

Fruit festival in my hotel in Hurghada ! Strawberries



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HODGEPODGE

1. Where do you go when you need some inspiration?

I don't really go around and look for inspiration, it comes to me from alone wherever I am or it doesn't come at all !

2. What's under your bed?
A book shelf with a drawer, I am sleeping  high up !

3. Thursday, February 22nd is National Chili Day, National Margarita Day, and National Cook a Sweet Potato Day. Of the three which would you most like to celebrate? Is that likely?

That's a lot of National Days to celebrate but as it is national I leave it to the nationals, because none of these plates except Chili con carne I eventually could celebrate _

4. What are you 'snowed under' with right now?



Not a good expression for me laying in the sun on the beach ! I am rather under the sun !


5. Tell us three to five things that make you feel balanced?



Light, sunshine, warmth, my hobbies, and no fights !



6. Insert your own random thought here.
Very difficult ! How should I dress tonight we are invited to the VIP cocktail party by manager !!

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