http://www.chasamba.com The Chasamba Weblog Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:55:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We got up at 5 o'clock in the morning today, and at 6 o'clock the pilot arrived. With our hearts full of trepidation we set out on the 80 kilometre voyage to Suez, hoping hope against hope that it wouldn't be a replay of the first leg. Unbelievably, all was ... http://www.chasamba.com/61/arrived-in-suez.html Here are some updates for our long suffering fans ( Mum and Dad, this means you)- meanwhile without pictures because all the youth of Ismailia are on the internet this evening and the upload is too slow. Tomorrow we will add pictures, I hope. http://www.chasamba.com/47/updates.html     Today we went out of the marina gates and flagged down a taxi, asked him to take us to the pyramids and just went! It took about 2 hours to get there, in a little old Lada which really moved, through the crazy traffic of Cairo, and out to Giza. ... http://www.chasamba.com/45/giza-and-the-pyramids.html Yesterday was a long, long day. It started with frantic preparations and ended well, but in between were several hours of believing that we were about to be; a) towed away by a suez canal barge for $2000 b)smashed into little bits by a ship the size of the Hilton c)shot by a ... http://www.chasamba.com/44/ismailia.html This morning the agent came and said that we are going through the canal today! We aren't organized, haven't even seen port Said at all, and really would rather stay a day. On the other hand, the 'marina' is filthy, there is wash all the time from big ships and ... http://www.chasamba.com/43/leaving.html     I am writing this in the nasty, polluted yacht harbour of Port Said, and however horrible it is, I am glad to be here. We had a difficult journey here, to say the least. First of all, the wind was against us all the way, and raised a lumpy, uncomfortable ... http://www.chasamba.com/41/port-said.html We can hardly believe that the time to leave has finally arrived! After loads of farewell parties, we will finally leave on Friday morning, bound for Port Said and the Suez canal. There we expect to wait at least a day or two before getting all the paperwork done. The ... http://www.chasamba.com/35/last-minute-preparations.html We're back, after a hard years work, and getting ready to leave. I have enjoyed working in the ICCU in Barzilai Hospital, and Oren has also had a good year teaching Bedouin to drive. We have both made many friends and will be sad to leave them. However, spring has ... http://www.chasamba.com/34/34.html After a week on the sidelines, I'm back, and up to actually running non-stop ( really!) for thirty minutes! At the end of that time, I'm almost out of the marina gate! No, really, I am still pretty slow, but can almost do a 10 minute mile, which is a ... http://www.chasamba.com/33/the-long-run.html Well, I may be out of the Olympics. Sheva can't understand what has happened to her new 5k runs- she was actually up to about 10k, with all her running back and to, and was even starting to get a little winded. Yes, we were up to 5k, running 30 ... http://www.chasamba.com/32/dog-in-top-athlete-injury-shock.html