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  • TravelerEgypt
    Day 8

    Day 6/7 Chill Chill Chill and Chill

    December 31, 2023 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    The problem with a fly and flop is that you don't have a lot of things to write about has you chill all day and eat.
    Day 6 was another beach 🏝️ day for the girls and I completed 2 presentations I had to write with a near disaster when the coffee ☕️ I was drinking went over my laptop 💻. (Sorry to Samir the house keeper for the mess)
    So tonight's meal was an Italian. Three large Pizza 🍕 and a tiramisu for Sharon and a pilot profiteroles for Amy.....🤪 where do they put it.

    Day 7
    It's time to go home.....no a day at the beach 🏝️ before our flight back in the evening. Thank you Egypt the service from the team of the Grand Rotana the best service I have ever experienced.    Read more

  • TravelerEgypt
    Day 5

    Day 4/5 Chill Chill Chill - Adventure

    December 28, 2023 in Egypt ⋅ 🌙 22 °C

    Chill Chill Chill - 3 days of laying in the sun ☀️ on the beach 🏝️ is enough for anyone.
    We finished day 3 with a lovely Chinese meal. The clue is in the name Platter. There was enough for four people and that was just the starter. Prawn 🍤 noodles 🍜 for the main and once again a beautiful evening meal.
    Day 5 - another lovely day on the beach 🏝️ and then this evening we went on a Egyptian Bedwyn safari.
    Picked up from the hotel late afternoon and the a 30min mini bus ride out to the desert 🌵. Then the shock of my life. We were offered a trip on a camel 🐪 or a quad bike 🏍️. Back in the day there would of been hundreds of camels 🐪 instead there were at least a thousand quad bikes 🏍️ all with inexperienced drivers.
    Our guide put a head scarf on us each and the "3 Musketeers Taliban" look alike a mounted our quad bikes 🏍️ and the guide Mhammond said push this button to go and this button to stop 🛑 (did you hear that Sharon...🤣)
    Of we set into the mountains. Along with a thousand other riders with a huge dust ploom shooting into the nights sky and the mountains echoing back the thunderous noise.
    We had a cameraman flanking us on the left taking videos and photos of the memorable event, at a cost of course.
    The guide started to slow down and then the cameraman stopped to take our photo has we filed in behind him. Although Sharon had other ideas....!
    It all happened in slow motion, she shot to the left and headed straight to the cameraman. His mouth dropped open his eyes widened knowing his fait Sharon and her quad bike took him out....😂
    His number plate flew off and he picked himself up shouting "push the stop button". "I did said" Sharon. "Yes but you also have your thumb on the go button".....🤣🤣🤣
    We carried on, nobody hurt just the cameraman's pride. Then we stopped at the foot of the mountains. Everyone off the Guide shouted. He then lined us up and got us to shout our names before we waited 4 seconds and the echo came back at us.
    Back on the quad bikes and of to the main event with Sharon at the front leading the way. Not a bad event but recon the animal right in the UK would of had a field day with the monkeys 🙊 snakes 🐍 and Crocodiles 🐊 in the shown. We return back to the hotel dusty shattered and hungry but intact. 👍🏽😊    Read more

  • TravelerEgypt
    Day 3

    Day 3 Chill Chill - Daiquiri

    December 26, 2023 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    Sleeping with Sharon, if you know what I mean, means you get "no" sleep. Like "No" sleep 😴 🐽.........
    Try to get to sleep was the first challenge with Sharon doing her Bruce-Lee impression against a mosquito 🦟. It must of work because it spent the night nibbling on Amy’s leg 🦵🏾. Yep, just the one...😂
    Up, a lite breakfast and then down to a new spot on the beach 🏝️
    Bikini 👙 out and the sun 🌞 shining, the sea 🌊 lapping, a quick snorkel 🤿 with the fish 🐠 what more could you want. (A hard boiled stolen egg 🥚 and a Daiquiri. 🤷
    Of to the bar we trot and the girls introduced me to a little cocktail 🍸. It taste more like a pineapple 🍍 drink 🍹 then an alcoholic drink. Dangerous.......
    4 Daiquiris 🍸 later and is wasn't a trot back to the sun-beds more like a flip-flop 🩴 or flop back.
    Spontaneity - why come to Egypt without seeing the local town. With a taxi 🚕 ordered we pile in and take the twenty minute drive to the town. Last time I came her was 25 years ago diving........
    Boy it's changed.!
    A dust road and a couple of hotels. Now, it's like Blackpool on steroids. We found a traditional Fish 🐟 restaurant, right in the middle of a fish market. The smell was enough to put you of, well Amy has she was gagging 🤢...... lol.
    Sitting down and looked at the menu, I made a promise to myself 6 months ago, always to try something different or ask the waiter what they would recommend.
    Napper grilled, fried prawns 🍤, fried calamari, prawn 🍤 pineapple 🍍 rice 🍚 a huge section of dips and sauces puffed up pitta bread, sooooooo nice.
    A little bit of that and a little bit of this the perfect meal with a complementary mint tea 🍵 at the end. Perfect...!
    Back to the Sky bar at the hotel for a final Daiquiri 🍸 or two.
    Sharon says that's 5 today.....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣    Read more

  • TravelerEgypt
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    Day 2

    Day 2 Chill

    December 25, 2023 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    Well that was an interesting night sleep......
    Arrived in the hotel room 22:23 only to fined the is one bed......lol
    Couple of phone calls and the receptionist sorted it out.
    Bless Sharon, after talking all the way on the plane, Boom 💥 she asleep.
    Can not believe on the plane ✈️ she said, "when you two go of for a walk to a waterfall" 🙄 we going to the bloody desert 🌵 🐪.
    8am up and breakfast 🍳 then a little walk around the resort to see what's about.
    Back to the room to grab our stuff and the chill 😎 for the day.
    And breath.......
    Oh Happy Christmas everyone...!    Read more

  • TravelerButterfly 🦋 Project
    Day 7

    Day 2 of the Build

    October 25, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

    Another great day on the build.
    The team are getting on so well and working so hard. Getting to know them all individually and their amazing personalities is what is making this trip.
    Today Gem one of the support workers was loading the bricks on the van with Siobhan one of the team she is supporting. Gem tried to pass the brick to Siobhan and Siobhan said she didn't want that one, Gem tried to encourage her to take the brick as they were passing them in a line. Siobhan said again she didn't want that one. I looked the other side of the brick and realised
    What she didn't say there was a huge 🦂 scorpion on the brick Gem was holding 🤣🤣🤣
    The day in the life of an African builder.....lol
    After dropping the team off back to the lodge, I took Lex and Gem out to visit some families that we wish to start to support with food parcels in a new area. Challenge is because it is so far out at Sandy getting a food parcels there. One of the families had a young man with cerebral palsy living with them. Lex was a shocked as I was to see somebody living with this condition. Living in such poor conditions was quite challenging.
    On the drive home I treated them to corn 🌽 on the Cobb. Africa Style....!
    It reminded me of Uganda    Read more

  • TravelerButterfly 🦋 Project
    Day 5

    Ist Days Build

    October 23, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    It's all hands on deck this morning. The team are up mega early and so excited to be doing the build after their late night playing UNO.
    First things first, 900 bricks to move. Because of the location of the house that has been built. Unfortunately the bricks had to be left about half a mile away so we have to walk him in. But one of the volunteers comes up with a great idea of using the P 200 little vehicle. So we have one team volunteers at the house unloading and one team at the party groups loading up done!
    We have a sudden scream, and one of the Volunteers drops a brick, an Outman a triansirer spider.
    Mr King gives his usual lesson of how to lay the bricks with very clear, precise instructions. And Stephen has been promoted to our water man.
    Siobhan doesn't stop until the last break is safely, moved to the house. What a great team.
    A long day and then to the tree for dinner.    Read more

  • TravelerButterfly 🦋 Project
    Day 4

    Community Day

    October 22, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ 🌬 24 °C

    Because of the delay getting here we did two community days in one.
    Showing the team the family that are in desperate need of a house and delivering them food parcels. To showing them the houses that the CoCos Foundation has done in the past is always hard but this community day has a different feel about it. We took the team to see the houses and families that are in desperate need in the morning and then in the afternoon we visited the families we had built homes for on our last trip. Lex was blown away by the difference within the people and the way they seemed so much happier. It's like you have taken all the pressure of them.
    The young adults where so genuine delivering the parcels and placing them down so gently into their houses.
    Lastly, we visited the house that we will be going to build on this trip. The team was so excited, jumping around all over the place asking so many questions. It was exhausting, but at the same time exhilarating. So looking forward to this Build…………    Read more

  • TravelerButterfly 🦋 Project
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    Day 2

    Travel day

    October 20, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    Well a challenging start to the trip.
    BA started the trip with a 15hr delay. So instead of starting the trip on Thursday 19th at 7pm we are delayed until Friday 20th 11:30am. It's a day flight which means we arrive at 12:30am Saturday morning. (In the early hours) our connecting flight will be at 6am to Durban.

    We meet the team at Heathrow with an early start, been picked up at 5am by BW Cars (thank you guys) arriving at Heathrow it is hectic and so many school groups. The team have been asked to where they're orange 🍊 hoodies so we can identify them with ease. But has we arrive into the departure hall there os a school trip with the same colour hoodies. (best plans and all that)

    The team start to arrive from the Butterfly 🦋 project on Horsham. A Centre that helps and supports young adults with learning difficulties to live an independent life.
    Most if not all the young people i had spent time with at some of their Fun'd raising events.
    One young lady Sobion when I first met her at the curry night walked over to me with a pint of beer 🍺 in her hand and said "wanted a pint" no I replied I'm ok I don't drink. Best you start tonight then she said.....lol
    The 5 support team I had met most of them but there had been a late change, has two of them had got sick just before coming out.
    Millie a young lady that was taking a year of traveling before studying has a doctor was joining us to Durban before going to volunteer at the Butterfly Palliative Unit.
    Plus Lindani who was coming home to surprise his mum.
    We start our journey going through BA terminal 5 and we did receive the airport assistance and the team got special land yards with sun flowers on so the airport staff could support them when needed.
    The flight was 85% full and a noise one has the team where so excited..!
    They didn't sleep the whole way there....lol
    We landed in Johannesburg at 11pm which meant we had a 5hr wait until the earliest flight we could get on to take us to Durban.. nothing was open not even a little coffee shop. So we set up camp on the floor of Johannesburg international airport. Without having any Communication that this flight had been canceled there had not been time to of got 14 people booked into a local hotel.
    4an and we are on the move again. At 54 my body is so not designed to sleep on a tiled floor. 😕
    We got on the plan and I thought I would just close my eyes. Bump..! We took of ir had we...?
    Nope we landed ....🤣 that was the quickest flight ever I had fallen asleep before we taken of.
    Durban airport grab some supplies and sort everyone phone out and then done to the rentals to pick up the mini bus but not before saying hallo to my best mate Mr King who met us.
    The journey up to the lodge was a quite one has everyone slept apart from me the Driver...lol
    Coming to the lodge is like coming home. We dropped all our cases of and took the team down to Sodwana beach 🏖️ just to chill 😎
    What a first day...........    Read more

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