We've spent the last five days moored up in Hurghada Marina, Hurghada is a large tourist town full of shops selling every kind of Egyptian souvenirs that you could possibly imagine! Despite the constant hassle we got from people trying to sell us miniature sphinxes and Mummy figurines we really enjoyed being back in civilization and being able to restock on fresh food at the local markets and cheap food in the restaurants. Hurghada is a Mecca for Russian package holidays which makes for an interesting mix of people but not necessarily in a good way. Egypt has one of the more reserved Muslim populations we've seen so far and drunken scantily clad Russians just don't seem to blend in so well!
Early this morning we dropped our lines and left the marina and are now underway to Port Suez where we'll begin the procedures to transit the Suez canal. We're sailing in company with one other yacht 'Wild Card' with Carolyn and Fatty Goodlander on board and hope to arrive in two days time. We have very little wind and are currently weaving our way through the fields of oil platforms that litter this area.
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