Thomas - 5 Months old now

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To Geoff & Brod's travels in New Zealand.

The link is on the right hand side and below:

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A great time is being had by both of them...... some great pics tooooooooo.

Don't miss them, click on the link within his site.

Sharm el Sheikh

Here we are in Egypt - taking a short welcome break from the wintry weather in England.

This is the view looking back to the beach from the jetty out over the coral where it is easy to go snorkelling.


Here we are in the Indian Restaurant, which is within the Hotel grounds, celebrating Suri's birthday with a complimentary cake from the Chef - a nice touch.






Here I am relaxing by the Blue Hole, which is near Dahab, about an hours drive up the coast from Sharm, where I did a bit of snorkelling, here I saw some beautiful amazing coloured fish and coral.
The Blue hole is the sheer drop at the edge of the coral down to a submarine pothole (a kind of cave), apparently around 130m deep.





When in Egypt what better way to travel than by Camel.

Here Suri is enduring a very uncomfortable ride which lasted for about 20 minutes - far too long but good fun a must do when in Egypt.








The entrance to the reception area of the Hotel Hauza Beach. I have written a report on the Hotel at Tripadviser - check it out - see link on right.












Suri escapes the sun under the Bedouin tent whilst out in the desert on the Sinai. To get there we had a great Jeep ride.



Santa can be found wherever you travel these days here he is on his camel in the centre of Narma Bay, just a stones throw from the beach. I guess he needs this sort of transportation in the desert.









We saw many Whirling Dervish Dancers but this chap was very good - possibly the best, here he is performing for us at the Hauza Beach Hotel as we drink and eat our evening meal under the moonlit sky.





Suri as usual joins in with the Belly Dancing to strut her stuff. I think we saw three different acts whilst we were there.







Here I am the intrepid traveller crossing the rope bridge over the swimming pools, how I did it only I will know.







One of our nights out was to Fantasia in the centre of Sharm where we had a Moroccan style dinner this was a cuscus based meal. Here we are with our fellow guests and holiday makers in the rather sumptious though the meal was rushed and the venue a little OTT .






We took a trip on the Yellow Submarine to see the tropical fish and coral around Old Sharm. An experience not to be missed.




Suri poses outside on the quay in front of the Yellow Submarine.

Gorgeous Thomas

Isn't he just.

Some recent pictures of the "little man".

Congratulations

to Nigel - he married Paula last Saturday the 20th September

Also in the photos are Shounie and Rhianna - Nigel's daughters.

Well done bruv.......

Thanks to Lily for the photos.

Thomas

More pictures taken on the 8th September - so he is now nearly two months old - time is passing too quickly.

He's so lovely.

The Last few days of the Europe Trip

Although we missed lots of places, we briefly visited many beautiful places over our final days - from Innsbruck in Austria, travelling along the Romantic Road through Germany, along the Rhine to Koblenz, and finishing up in Le Touquet - Paris Plage, and .................

Boulogne Sur Mer ------ which was a surprise to me as it is much improved since I last visited it.

We are a little tired and weary from all of our travels ........... but we are now planning our next trip - check out the site for more.

Salzburg

Wandering through the streets we found this shop that sold painted egg shells - we just had to have a picture and I did buy one - not sure where to put it now though..








The food stalls were just magnificent - the produce range was impressive

We took the funicular up to the castle on the top of the hill which overlooks the city - the views were stunning and the castle was much bigger than I had expected.


After all of the sunny weather we had been having to get fog was a bit of a surprise but it did not detract from the wonderful Austrian scenery. This waterfall was not unlike the one we saw earlier in the year in Kings Canyon in California.

Vienna

Wonderful Vienna - truly a magnificent city, here I am in the Parliament building giving a speech to the Austrian ministers. The building itself was partly destroyed in WW2 but was rebuilt in the same style, fortunately the oldest and most historical part of the building was undamaged.






Here we are in the park with Mozart.











We took a tour of the Opera house the auditorium itself was quite small but the rest of the building - particularly the "behind stage" area was enormous.





I returned to Bad Aussee - I went ski ing here in my teens - unfortunately I recognised hardly anything of the place - mind you it is a long time ago and it was covered in snow last time.





Lake Wolfgang - I just had to have a swim - it was warm - believe me .................

Lake Balaton - the place where the Hungarians go for their holiday.

For us it was time for some relaxation.......

We had a couple of days here just chillin'

Highly recommended, the water was warm - very sandy and an enormous area .... 70+km in length, and on both sides of the lake are sandy beaches and grass verges to lie about on with loads of shops, kiosks and bars selling local produce.

Getting across the lake on the ferry is so easy and a great trip in itself.