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Dinner Time

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Dinner at the Marriott (for those staying Half / Full Board) is provided in the Al Alandalus restaurant, located near the pool. It’s a “help yourself” buffet, with many different things to choose from – various meat dishes, salads, homous, bread, pastas, fish (the fish by the way, is excellent) For desert, they have on offer one of the larges selections of cakes etc…...

Cairo & Pyramids Of Giza

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We were picked up from the hotel at a nice and early 3:30 am, which meant getting ourselves out of bed at 2, to be sure we were ready. Dissapointingly, me phoning up reception the night before and asking for an early breakfast wasnt enough, and they had forgotten to prepare anything. So we faced the 6 hour journey on an empty stomach…. This wasnt necesarily a bad thing, as the road we were...

Flight To Taba

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Our flight was at 12:15, and we checked in around 10:10am, however, it seems, this was a bit too late. There were no “couple” seats available. which meant we had to sit either side of the aisle. Not too bad I suppose. The seat pitch was as expected, less than generous. Flight time of 4 hours 50 minutes seemed much longer. After many games of Mario on the Nintendo DS, i tried to get...

7 Wonders Of The (Modern) World

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I’m on a mission to see all 7 wonders of the world.
These are

Colosseum – Rome, Italy 

Great Wall Of China

Taj Mahal – Agra, India

Petra – Jordan

Machu Picchu – Peru

Christ Redeemer – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Pyramid at Chichén Itzá – Mexico