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The International Journal of Sport and Leisure (Some sport. Some leisure. Also, schistosomiasis.) |
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Recent Entries
* Dire Straits of Tiran
* Tuna, Trucks and Toilets * Out Again... * Diving the Thistlegorm: A Fatal Accident on the Red Sea * Diving Dahab * To Dahab * Return to Cairo * Home Sweet... Laziness
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June 28, 2005Dire Straits of TiranTuesday, June 28, 2005 Sharm el Sheikh/Ras Mohammed, Egypt: At 6 AM, after another night of sleeping aboard the dive boat, we motored off from Sharm to the Straits of Tiran. The entry-point from the greater Red Sea into the...Read this update June 27, 2005Tuna, Trucks and ToiletsMonday, June 27, 2005 Sharm el Sheikh/Ras Mohammed, Egypt: My second trip out to the Thistlegorm was far better than my first. True, it wouldn't take much for that to be the case, but the last dive of the day,...Read this update June 25, 2005Out Again...Thursday (afternoon), June 23 to Saturday, June 25, 2005 Dahab, Egypt: Dan, Adam and I spent a few hours on Thursday afternoon sitting by a swimming pool smoking cigarettes, drinking rum (not a lot of it) and stating a number...Read this update June 23, 2005Diving the Thistlegorm: A Fatal Accident on the Red SeaSharm el Sheikh/Ras Mohammed, Egypt Thursday, June 23, 2005: This isn't the happiest of posts and I'm writing it more as a cautionary tale than for the sake of remembering something I stand little chance of forgetting. I saw a...Read this update June 22, 2005Diving DahabMonday, June 20 to Wednesday, June 22, 2005 Dahab, Egypt: The Red Sea was formed over 30 million years ago as the plates between Africa and Arabia drifted apart and a flood of water rushed in to fill up the...Read this update June 19, 2005To DahabSunday, June 19, 2005 Cairo to Dahab, Egypt: Cairo's main long-distance bus station isn't particularly large, nor populous at 7 in the morning, but it nevertheless manages to be painfully confusing for the non-Arabic speaker. I sat on a bench...Read this update June 18, 2005Return to CairoFriday, June 17 to Saturday, June 18, 2005: Cairo, Egypt: I was dead tired and stuck in a mile-long traffic-jam with shrieking horns and sirens, hollering street-vendors and the blaring voice of a Muezzin all competing for my attention. It...Read this update June 15, 2005Home Sweet... LazinessWednesday, June 2 to Wednesday June 15, 2005: Middle Grove and New York City, New York I wasn't expecting to be writing about life back home in the USA again, after the first few pre-departure entries I posted back in...Read this update |
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