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- 2024/05/19
- ☀️ 95 °F
- 海抜: 59 フィート
- エジプトSouth Sinai GovernorateUm el SidSharm al Mayyah27°51’58” N 34°17’32” E
Sharm Wedding
5月19日, エジプト ⋅ ☀️ 95 °F
We said goodbye to Cairo and off to Sharm (Sharm El Sheikh) on the Sinai Peninsula. My niece is getting married and we weren't going to miss it. We arrived in the early afternoon to a nice ocean breeze. Checked in to the Park Regency Hotel with no hassle. This is the scene of the wedding also.
We signed up for the Regency Club which was a slight upcharge. However it got us breakfast and happy hour appetizers (which we turned into dinner) along with free alcohol for the duration of our stay. Not bad.
We scarcely left the reservation during our stay. The word back from others was that the vendors at the shopping areas are rather aggressive so we decided to pass. We did go for a hair coloring and a haircut the day of the wedding. Not that exciting.
The weather was lovely if not a bit too hot some days. But the evening of the wedding was fantastic. A nice breeze and the low 80's. My niece Aoife married a wonderful Egyptian man Maruan. Maruan has an Egyptian father and a Austrian mother. Lovely, and very welcoming people.
The wedding was held outside and afterparty were more geared to western traditions and went off almost without a hitch. The food at the reception was a buffet style and fabulous with all kinds of Egyptian foods and desserts. I tapped out at around 11pm but the party girl gave it a good run. Text from her at 4:12am. Don't wake me up. Hahaha.
We stayed on five days after the wedding. Got to know the British Pro Consul to the area and her husband. Got to know Maruan's family a little better and had lazy days on the beach. BTW the water here is amazing and lots of coral and fish just off the shore. We had a wonderful time with no complaints.
For those interested in Sharm's interesting history see the following link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharm_El_Sheikh
C: I wouldn’t say “no complaints”…got a pretty severe case of “King Tut’s Revenge”, if you know what I mean. 🫤 Tried to power thru until the next to last morning there when I broke out into a sweat and thought I was going to pass out into my breakfast plate. Finally took a 1g dose of azithromycin and rested the day. Right as rain the next morning. Lesson learned: take the f**king antibiotic sooner!もっと詳しく
旅行者 Looks wonderful. Love the pictures