DAY 24 Safaga, Egypt

The show last night was excellent, he was an English Comedian who also juggled things like knives, axes etc.  He really was hilarious and had the whole theatre in fits of laughter.  Must say the shows on here have been excellent ever since we left New Orleans….which feels like years ago J

We docked at 6.00am so as to get the people for their visit to Luxor and the Valley of the Kings.  It’s a good 3 hour drive from Safaga.  We are sharing the port today with Oceana Cruises, Nautica plus two Saudi Arabian Ferries. They both arrived carrying heaps of people. When they disembarked the containers in them was baggage and bundles wrapped in cloth.  Roy spoke to someone who in broken English said they are arriving from Saudi Arabia to live in Egypt.  The port was a flurry with people everywhere, we happened to be walking through when all these people in the droves disembarked the two ferries. So we assume they are refugees. Arabs sound as if they’re yelling all the time, but they’re not, it’s just the language and to us it’s seems everyone is talking but no-one is listening. It was quite an experience to say the least walking amongst all the chaos of their arrival.

We wandered back to the ship in time for lunch as there isn’t really much in and around the port of Safaga, only one Duty Free Shop which we had a look at, and all bought something we really didn’t need J.

This afternoon we are continuing with our Olympic sports challenge between Roy and I, Wayne and Linda and Brian and Margaret.  This afternoon’s challenge is Shuffleboard. We are adding the individual scores from each challenge.  Wayne is in the lead from the last Golf challenge and I’m only one point behind him so this afternoon I’m out to try and take the lead.  J

We don’t sail until 11.00pm tonight and now we will have six days at sea before our arrival in Dubai. It’ll be nice to have a few rest days on the ship as it has been quite busy this past week with all the busy ports of call.

Apologies for not being able to reply to the many questions I've been asked.  Sometimes it's too difficult to respond due to the slow speed of the internet at times.

I an answer one question for those joining us in Dubai.  There will be three Formal nights between Dubai and Singapore.