So instead of Croatia, we ended up taking an all-inclusive six day trip to the Egyptian city of Sharm El Sheik, located in the Sinai desert, technically part of Asia.
It was a fun experience, but totally bizarre. I was thoroughly molested by mosquitos, but we got to enjoy a week of 30+ degree weather.
We signed up for a 3 day SCUBA certification program called PADI, where we received our Open Water Diver 1 license. The scuba diving there was fantastic. We saw, among other things, a blue-spotted sting ray and a gigantic great morray eel. The eel had to have been at least 7 feet long, and its head was about two feet from top to bottom.
Now we've returned to Horni Valdorf, and we had one casualty on the trip home: the Trabant died about 3 towns away from Valdorf, and our neighbor Tomash, who found the Trabant for us, towed us home. The alternator is kaput, so we're handing the keys over to Tomash for good.
Tomorrow we'll be bussing to Paris, where we will stay for a couple of days. We'll catch our flight to Dublin on the 13th, and the final chapter of our journey shall begin.
Best regards to those back home!
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Hi Fin,
The diving sounds great, but it may not be so good here. Cold & cloudy water.
Sorry to hear about your car, but I think you still got your money's worth!
Glad you are safely back in Europe & we look forward to your impressions of Paris.
TAKE PICTURES (or are you afraid to tell us you have lost the camera?)
Love Dad
I'd really like to get a SCUBA cert myself.
I think that car did well for the price you paid ;-)
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