La Hacienda

We wanted a bit of sun, a bit of a rest and chance to chill out before the end of term and flying home for the summer. A group of us hired a minibus for the three-hour drive onto the Sinai to get to the Hacienda resort on Thursday after school for a two-night break.

The Gecko visits again

Beep, beep, be-be-beep

This evening Egypt played Italy in the Confederations Cup. Having narrowly lost 3-4 against Brazil the other night, everyone was rather excited about the match being a possible win. Now, we don't have TV (satellite or otherwise), so rely on t'internet for our viewing. However, the BBC live stream of the match on their website isn't - ironically - available for us to watch over here. So we've sat waiting to be told the result.

Judging by the incessant noise of the car horns for the past 3 hours, I think we won.

Swine Flu in Egypt

A couple of months behind everyone else Egypt has, over the past week, confirmed its first cases of swine flu. All three are from visitors arriving from the USA. I wonder if Mr Obama was swabbed and had his temperature taken by a masked nurse when he visited?

Sparrows in the Air Conditioning

Getting an MRI scan on Scotty's knee

Ring Road Blowout!