fränzi and i decided to go somewhere else for a while. we accepted a job offer from a company in egypt. fränzi always wanted to dive the red sea. so, why going there as a paying tourist for a week or two if we can go there for a year or so - and get paid?! the job is to open a new 'orca dive club' in the south of egypt, near the sudanese border where it's less crowded than up north. they just build a new four-star hotel near a tiny village called hamata - our new home for a while. when we got here a few weeks ago the hotel had just opened but the work on the building for the dive shop was put on hold because of the 'ramadan' in september. it's the building on the right hand side. in the background the red sea including our 'house reef'.
we thought living in a hotel is gonna be tough but it's not. we enjoy the service, the egyptian staff are very nice people and we love our large room with a dome-shaped roof and a large balcony.
i reckon we'll become really lazy here as we never have to clean, cook, do the dishes or anything like that. they even do the laundry for us, including ironing. life really is not too bad here...
