• Our last day in Hurghada

    January 6, 2023 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    We had a final relaxing day by the pool.

    I started reading 📚 A Winter on the Nile by Anthony Sattin. It is a fascinating read - the true story of journeys down the Nile made by Florence Nightingale and Gustav Flaubert at the same time in 1849. They never met but the parallels in their stories are remarkable. The fact that we've just visited the places described in their accounts gives me whole new insights about those places.

    This evening, as a celebration of Orthodox Christmas, the hotel had really gone to town with the dinner buffet 😋. Hopefully, now January 6th is over, it will be an end to the constant Christmas songs still playing everywhere we go 😂
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