SPONSORED BY: Nettinho e Keite, Biriba e Dre, Maracy e Aparicio, Claire and Andrew Foreman, Alf and Sarah and my Nan!
After our near twelve hour bus journey finished, we got off at the station and waited around wondering what to do - it turned out that the the same bus was continuing on to Dahab so we got back on and arrived in the little town around midday.
We had some Koshary for lunch at a little place on the main strip and then talked to Matt, our host and PADI instructor, to let him know we were on our way. Dahab is a small city sandwiched between the desert, mountains and the Red Sea and is the right kind of touristy (in my opinion) everything is small (I haven't seen any building above three storeys high), people are friendly and relaxed, lots of signs are in English as well as Arabic and there aren't any big nasty resorts ruining the coastline. We met Matt and he took us straight to the diving centre, Planet Dive. We filled in all the paperwork, tried to pay but our credit cards were playing up so we left that for another day and got stuck straight into our course. Amy Lamb a young Ozzie was doing the course with us, a lovely chatty dreaded girl who favoured the natural look – making me feel much better about my own hirsute legs! Matt briefed us on what we would be doing in the water – basically lots of basic skills like getting back the regulator if it pops out of your mouth and changing from your reg to snorkel underwater. He gave us two chapters to read for homework – two hundred odd pages to digest in one evening and then spit back out the following day when the knowledge was required! It was good in a challenging rather than fun way and because we did the 'confined' dive in open water we saw some fish!
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After diving we went back to his place on the other side of town, a small two bed place he shares with his Egyptian/American flatmate, Kiki and her small friendly dog Siren (who loves to have her tummy scratched – assuming the position as soon as you scratch her ears), our place was the living room. We unloaded our stuff behind the door, had a chat and basically hit the books until we fell asleep. We arranged the mattresses/couches so they were in front of the door making the most of the breeze coming through. It was a bloody hot evening and despite wanting to sleep naked we got inside our sleeping bags and fell asleep almost instantly.
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