Saturday January 26 2008
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BioTecKYes! We finally found some time to focus on our summer holiday yesterday! We had 5 different countries in mind: Turkey, Cyprus, Italy, Portugal & Egypt. Off course we had some demands… we wanted to have the same comfort as our last holiday, a place where you can relax, a place with not that much kids, not that crowded, a place where you can see a lot of things. No, not museums, but the nature!
So yesterday we headed to the travel agency called D-Reizen and explained what we wanted. After a while it became clearly that Portugal, Italy and Cyprus couldn’t meet our needs, so it was either Turkey or Egypt. So at first we choose for Turkey, but after seeing a couple of hotels we saw that even Turkey couldn’t meet our needs, so we moved on to Egypt.
After seeing some hotels, we still didn’t knew what to choose! They all were just beautiful, so it was really hard to choose!! But then some other woman who worked at the travel agency told us that she had been to a place called: El Gouna. This would be the Venice of Egypt, and she showed us some pictures of the place, which were magnificent! El Gouna is located on the Red Sea in Egypt, 22 km north of Hurghada International Airport, and is specialized in watersports, including scuba diving, windsurfing, kite surfing, waterskiing, parasailing and snorkeling. There are two main beaches, Zeytuna Beach located on its own island and Mangroovy Beach. A network of canals allow many houses to have their own strip of beach, even hundreds of meters inland. Most of theses canals are crossed by small stone bridges!
This is what we wanted, so we searched for a nice hotel in El Gouna, and we finally choose the Three Corners Ocean View hotel! This is a 4 star hotel with almost everything in it: 2 swimming pools, a jacuzzy, sauna, reastaurants, bars, fitness room, is located at the beach and 1 km from the center of the city! So we booked our holiday right away, we will be living 14th of August till 22 August! We will be flying with Transavia again but not from Eindhoven Airport, but from Schiphol Amsterdam. The flight will take something about 4.30 hours, so that’s doable for me, but it will be harder for Jannie. Anyway, we’re really looking forward to it, and here below you can see some pictures of our hotel! 
I have some more picture which you can view here below! 
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Wow! Those are magnificent pictures!
When I think of Egypt, that’s not the way I thought it would be… of course… I haven’t done much world traveling, so I have the sand and pyramid image in my mind. Thanks for sharing. It looks like your summer is going to be astounding!
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I haven’t done much world traveling either, but I’m intend to visit as much countries as I can!
In the past I had heard a lot about Egypt and the things you could do in Egypt, but this is beyond my expectations!
Yes, I’m really looking forward to the summer holiday!
Looks cool.
) I want to go to Egypt too, and Oman :)!
Before we leave here (if we don’t leave in two weeks
Yes, looks nice indeed! Oman.. I’ve never been there, maybe a good idea for the next time!
Wow, it looks beautiful. I’ll have to consider going there.
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Yes! It looks really magnificent! I’m really exited to go there!!
I can tell you El Gouna is wonderful! It’s a very peaceful place. I highly recommend to take the shuttle boats and to go on every route they offer. It’s just fantastic!
Will you go on a little sightseeing also?
I hope you enjoy your stay in Egypt!
Hi Ana,
That’s what the lady who works at the travel agency told us!
We’re going to take the shuttle boats routes but we also want to do some scuba diving, snorkelling and maybe kite surfing, waterskiing and parasailing!
We love to look around, do some sightseeing, making pictures etc!! But we’ll use the vacation to get some sun and relax a bit!
I’m really looking forward to see Egypt and off course our holiday!
Can’t wait till August! 