Come Fly a Kite

As well as helping out on the operations desk, we also helped look after the equipment. Sometimes we were getting it out, to be used by eager punters, sometimes we were putting it away. You will find us in our next picture if you look hard.


Everything was really well looked after which we fully appreciated: after all, equipment that lasts, because it is well cared for, ultimately means lower prices for eager holiday makers like us, and that's definitely a good thing.

Being small bears, we did find the windsurfer boards a bit heavy to manoeuvre, but we had no problems with the sails, and we soon became experts in selecting the right sail to match a person's physique, experience and the prevailing conditions.


As a thank you for all our hard work, we were given some free kite surfing lessons. Potentially this could be a dangerous sport - the exhilarating ones often are - so it was important to learn how to fly a kite safely on land first.

Here I, George, am, demonstrating how it's done on the simulator.


Even the simulator was exciting enough to make my fur stand on end. The real thing - well it was completely mind, and fur, blowing.

Lots of love, George & Yorkie xxx

As Active As You Want to Be

As we strolled along the beach for the first time we began to get quite excited when we saw the sign we were looking for ...


... this was because we were on a Mark Warner holiday where you can do lots of lovely watersports for free. It is all optional and we thoroughly approved of their slogan of 'As active as you want to be'. There were a few times when we were happy just to relax in the sun - here we are being really chilled out bears -


- but most of the time we were on, or in, the water, trying out all the different gear.

We'll let you see us in action next time.

Lots of love George & Yorkie xxx

Wafted to Paradise

We would have liked to have done a few more 'live' posts from Egypt, but unfortunately circumstances conspired against us. Our Poddy was no use to us for blogging, as although the hotel had wi-fi, it had no method of allowing guests to use it, and the £6 per hour internet connection was so slow that we only got about 10 minutes effective use, making posting rather expensive.

We're now safely back home and able to tell you all about our Egyptian adventure. We were staying at a veritable paradise and we're almost afraid to show you some of our pictures, as we think they might make you rather envious of us, and make you want to leave cold, wet England to fly right there. But here goes, lets give you a taste of where we were staying.


This was the view from our balcony. The bay you can see was not where we sailed, it was the bay where the kite surfing took place. What a spectator sport that was!

Although it wasn't far to the beach, if we fancied cooling off before we got there, we only had to take a few steps to reach the first of the hotel's 3 pools.


Waterfalls, bridges and rock formations provided lots of interest.

But we were really there for the beach and all that goes on there in the way of watersports. As soon as we saw the blue sea, sand, palm trees, loungers and wicker parasols we knew we were going to have a good holiday ...


... and that was before we'd seen any of the boats.

Lots of love George & Yorkie xxx