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AUTUMN ON THE RED SEA.
November 14.2016 Monday
Kyiv. The day before departure.
For a long time I had the idea of celebrating my birthday in an extraordinary setting, for example, in a Red Sea resort. This idea was especially obsessive this year - and all because in Egypt I am already a regular guest and for me its resorts and the Red Sea have become dear, I fell in love with them and they have become a part of my soul. And on your birthday, everyone wants to be together with the closest and dearest. It is almost impossible to invite my beloved ones to me: after all, the Red Sea is not a Stone Guest to go by invitation, and not a Mountain that sometimes deigns to come to Mohammed ...And therefore I myself decided to go (fly) to the sea and arrange a Day there birth. In addition, I felt that this year there would be a breakthrough from unrealizable ideas - to reality!
Looking ahead, I’ll say: my feelings didn’t let me down: I really visited the Red Sea for the first time in my life on my birthday ...And I had such confidence due to the fact that twelve hours before departure, I had a ticket to Hurghada in my hands and an eight-day voucher to the Mirage New Hawaii all inclusive hotel. I stayed true to the principle of choosing a hotel: the first coastline, all-inclusive meals and a hotel with a good reputation (based on reviews from previous guests at the hotel).
I got together quickly. Even on the way home from the travel agency, I sketched out a list of necessary things that you need to take with you. And, moreover, since I often go to such events (resorts) - something like creative business trips, I decided to print this list on a printer so that there would be no problems in the future.
And I also thought of preparing a bag in advance, in which, in addition to this list, I put the maximum possible number of things necessary at the resort, such as a mask with a snorkel, beach shoes, a pharmacy and hygiene kit, several chocolates, two bottles of vodka (customs gives the go-ahead) and etc. - for the case if a "burning" ticket turns up, less than five hours before departure. And I advise you to do the same - then there will be no desperate exclamations: “I forgot (a)! "Didn't take it! "...As a result, we got luggage in the form of a small bag, weighing just over 10 kg, and hand luggage. The most important thing is that there are no prohibited things in hand luggage: from piercing and cutting to alcoholic beverages, plain water and food (and the latter, apparently, is already colluding with food points in the duty free zone and the aircraft crew: drink on the plane alcohol, how much you drink, eat as much as you like, only if you buy from them for a euro!
) Maybe two slightly drunk young men were not allowed to land due to envy that they “got together” not from them, but on the side of UIA.
I didn’t take my laptop with me: I didn’t fly for twenty days, as usual, but only for seven. And I really didn’t want to waste precious resort time, hatching into a laptop screen, to “tap out” the text of “masterpieces” born on the Red Sea for hours with one finger. It's the same idiotically unreasonable activity as watching TV day and night, or spinning a Rubik's Cube during the entire trip around the world. But he took three times more clean sheets of paper than the number of days of rest and three ballpoint pens. In a word, I was “armed” to the teeth to hunt for inspiration.
And therefore, in terms of the scientific organization of creative work (NOT), I preferred to write sketches and impressions from being on the Red Sea in an old-fashioned way, as in the time of Pushkin and Gogol - on paper.
Plus - speed: I write several times faster than I tap on the keyboard with one finger; as well as mobility and efficiency: there is always a pen and paper at hand in order to cut off the passing Inspiration in a raid ...
The route to the airport has been worked out to the smallest detail and tested in previous flights to the resort. And several times more economical than a taxi. Four hours (with a large margin) before departure, I leave the house, go by metro to Kharkivskaya (forty minutes), then on the Sky fly branded bus (it runs clearly, every half an hour, the price is 35 UAH. ) to the airport (twenty minutes on the road) and more than two hours before the start of check-in, I was already at the airport "Borispol" ...
The first check right at the entrance to the terminal is superficial, so that no one carries weapons and explosives. I judge the superficiality of the check by the fact that they are not forced to take off their shoes. After this check, the luggage is no longer checked and should be loaded onto the aircraft.
And a thorough check to the smallest detail with the swelling and removal of any liquid (water, drink, beer or alcohol) is already at the entrance to the boarding area of the terminal. Therefore, knowing all this, even at home I scattered luggage and carry-on luggage about what is possible and what is not. Therefore, no problems have ever arisen. I don’t recommend to hand over things that have not passed customs to the luggage room at the airport: the price of storage during your vacation can increase to several hundred, or even thousands of hryvnias.
This time I was “lucky” to fly on a plane of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA). I haven’t flown with this airline for a long time and therefore I was “pleasantly” surprised by the security measures for passengers. Why did I use quotes ("") twice? - Yes, because they did not allow two tipsy men to land (and their wives and children left the landing with them - real friends, like the wives of the Decembrists! ). To my question: “Why do people spoil their vacation?
They are not drunk and stand on their feet! ”, followed the answer of the stewardess: “They are in flight the plane is turned upside down (?! ). You don't want an emergency landing at an alternate airfield, do you? This is how the resort in Hurghada ended for five people ...And we (there were about 200 of us) lost a total of ten days of rest: we delayed the flight for an hour, while a dozen policemen arrived, “persuaded” the “violators” to go to terminal, and then searched for their luggage for a long time in the “belly” of the plane.
Therefore, if you are flying on a UIA plane, do not try to “take it on your chest” on the eve of boarding the plane, even if they try to take your favorite drink from your hand luggage during inspection, or you bought it in duty free and there is an irresistible desire to experience the quality alcohol, without leaving the cash register, in order to make a claim, in which case ...The main Cerberus in this respect on the plane is the stewardess, and therefore, even if you drank a beer the day before and there is a smell, silently gently smile at her! And everything will be all right!
It seems to me that this is ostentatious security against passengers, and not against terrorists: a big man in a poison-colored vest with the inscription “Security” on the back and two more agents in civilian clothes walks openly around the cabin. And they make remarks to those male passengers who gather in twos or threes and pass a plastic bottle with an indefinite liquid around in a circle ...
Yes, in the end, it is not the flight attendant who should determine “by eye” the suitability of a particular passenger for a flight, but an express analysis of the alcohol content in the blood. If there is no such ground, then in court the injured passengers, including the remaining 200 people, can challenge the illegal actions of the aircraft crew and sue UIA.
And further. In order not to deviate far from the topic of air transportation of passengers, I would like to note the conspicuous commercialization of this process: flight attendants unobtrusively defill the cabin with foreign exchange goods, drinks and alcohol on trolleys and offer passengers. And the prices are...
November 14-15.2016 Monday Tuesday
And Egypt again!
I frequented something on the Red Sea. I have been to the Red Sea more often than to Kyiv. “And why are you so betraying Kyiv after so many laudatory odes to it? ', anyone will ask. Answer: Kyiv is in my heart (I love it! ), and the Red Sea is in my Soul (it sunk into my soul).
I love Kyiv with all my heart, and my Soul clings to Nature, the bright and unique embodiment of which is the Red Sea. Before that, there was the Black Sea and Crimea. But…
Maybe I'm still a pagan! But in general, I love Nature, regardless of its content: the Black Sea, the Red Sea or the Dnieper with wonderful coastal forests and other diverse vegetation, morning fogs and dew diamonds on every leaf ...And the Red Sea is exotic!
So, after several vain attempts to search and buy cheap, but "cool" tours to Egypt, to Sharm El Sheikh to five-star hotels, when the newly appeared interesting options immediately disappear, you don’t even have time to get to your travel agency, which guarantees you and a 5% discount, I settled on the 4 * hotel option "Mirage New Hawaii" in Hurghada, which, as it turned out later, is in many respects no worse than the average five-star hotels.
And my persistence in finding a tour is due to the fact that this year, by the way, for the first time in my life, I decided to celebrate my birthday at a resort on the Red Sea. He even ignored the completion and delivery to the printer of the tenth volume of his complete works. And, in the end, why am I worse than others who are so happy to receive a surprise from the hotel administration in the form of a chic festive table with a white tablecloth, a basket of fruits and a big cake, which I have repeatedly observed in the hotels of Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada during the previous your tours? . . But all this should be for me only in a week, on the last day of my vacation: this tour has just arrived in time. In the meantime, I just stepped on the concrete surface of the Hurghada airfield, so that after the mandatory procedures at customs, visas and passport procedures, I can get on the bus and get to this coveted place on the Red Sea coast.
Until now, my inert, and even conservative nature cannot link two events into one whole of my being in a difference of only four hours. On the one hand, the cold, frost, snow and ice of Kyiv, on the other hand, the summer of Egypt, gushing with a riot of tropical Nature, fish and corals of the warm Red Sea . . Waiting in these conditions on the Kharkiv residential area for a bus to the airport is still fresh in my memory - this night when I was freezing in the piercing wind and shivering from the cold, feeling oppressed, forgotten by fate and useless to anyone.
And in this discomfort, it seemed to me that the whole world wants to get rid of me, destroy me, and I’m defenseless like that - I can’t do anything ...But I knew that an airliner was waiting for me - this is a miracle of scientific and technological progress, which is capable of a fairy tale for two hundred of its passengers make it a reality, break the tradition that has been established for thousands of years, when after a rainy and slushy autumn winter should come with bitter frosts and blizzards, and will invite us to plunge into all the benefits of summer again ...
November 15.2016 Tuesday
Weather in Hurghada in November
Upon arrival at 8 am, Hurghada pleased with the coolness - exactly that comfortable coolness that is pleasant for the body - 20? S. And this is in comparison with that unbearable heat and scorching wind from the desert, even in such morning hours when I flew here in the summer in the past.
But not the same as in many hotels in Sharm El Sheikh, and, in particular, in the Royal Grand Sharm 5 * hotel, where I was this summer, ankle-deep for a hundred meters and corals that emerge on the surface of the sea during low tides. And quite acceptable for swimming - up to one and a half meters deep after a dozen and a half meters with its gradual deepening. This is especially nice for children. Although during this period there were children of preschool age, mostly in prams. Of course, school… But I can imagine what is happening here in the summer, during school holidays… But, alas, today is the second half of November and all our children gnaw at the science of knowledge in schools. And only some of these children, who were lucky enough to be here, on the Red Sea, have only good memories of colored fish and other delights of this wonderful land.
The sun
The sun in November in the resorts of Egypt is softer and much more favorable to your body, compared to its incredible pungency in summer. So you can spend the whole day, from early morning until sunset, with short breaks for breakfast and lunch, basking under its rays or under canopies of palm leaves - never get burned. And no need to hide from him at noon in an air-conditioned room. For example, I lay under the sun at noon for about three hours in one position (more precisely, I was sleeping, as they say, “without hind legs”, after a sleepless night of intercontinental flights) and nothing - the tan very evenly and without redness adorned my back. But I imagined how burnt to a crimson red I would be if I allowed myself such a luxury here, in July - August. And he was horrified.
And now, satisfied with the climate of the velvet season, after such a long stay under the sun, he plunged into the sea, driving away the remnants of sleep and slowly went to take a delicious dinner. After all, it's time for lunch. After all, in fact, I woke up (paradox! ) from the unusual silence around: the usual "clamor" of vacationers and the usual sounds of splashing water from swimmers were not heard: the entire beach, except for a few people who are not on the "all inclusive" system, but those very few, quietly gathered and left for lunch.
Dinner
In fact, as it was later confirmed, there was something to strive for: the dinner turned out to be very impressive. Perhaps this was after a “hungry” flight, since they stopped feeding on the planes, and the “barbarians” took away all the food and drinks prepared from home during the inspection of hand luggage.
Yes, and breakfast in this hotel, as in other hotels in Egypt, was very weak - just scrambled eggs or scrambled eggs, and even some trifle that cannot be included in the category of "essential". So for those who live by the principle: “Eat breakfast yourself, and share lunch with a friend, ” it will be very problematic to survive with gastronomic comfort from breakfast to lunch. But I survived because I ate both scrambled eggs and scrambled eggs at breakfast (I advise you too - no problem: take at least four servings, no one will even look crookedly, just to secure everyone, from the cleaner to the chef, who has white “French” red stripe, smile and say: “Salam Aleikum! ” And as many times to the same Arab as many times you meet him - they love it, checked for my seven trips to Egypt! )
And this dinner somehow reminded me of those unforgettable pre-crisis dinners, about ten years ago, when it was completely different: both in terms of the variety of dishes and the deliciousness of their preparation. Actually, everything remains the same, only now even many five-star hotels in Egypt in all respects, and not only in terms of food, “do not reach” those former three-, four-star hotels. And this striking contrast is perceived especially by me, who, for objective reasons, had a ten-year gap between the last vacation on the Red Sea and the current one.
Here, despite the crisis, in a four-star hotel on the very first day I was pleased with lunch: three types of meat - beef, grilled sausages, chicken; two types of fish: fried and cooked in dough in boiling vegetable oil, many salads, cucumbers (very tasty, like from the garden), tomatoes, olives, and so on. And drizzle everything with olive oil or other seasonings. Soups are like soups.
Nothing unusual: usually vegetable and mushroom. I just always wanted real Ukrainian borsch with bacon with donuts with garlic and a large piece of pork for lunch ...But, given Muslim customs and realizing that you are visiting them, the maximum that I could afford, in violation of the Koran, is to drink half a glass before dinner strong at 45? anise vodka "OUZO", perhaps the only strong drink worthy of respect that cannot be diluted - it becomes cloudy!
I will not talk about sweet dishes and desserts. Everyone knows very well. And these dishes are equally famous for both two- and five-star hotels in Egypt. And, it's always fresh. Only one surprises: how do chefs manage to cook so many delicious sweets in one short Egyptian night?
The drinks
The best drinks can be determined late in the evening, and preferably after 24-00 (surprisingly, the lobby bar is open around the clock! ), asking what is no longer there.
As usual, by this time they are already drinking the best: beer, OUZO and red wine. From strong alcoholic drinks, you can still drink Tequila, Rum and Whiskey, and it is better to absorb them in various cocktails. I have not tried others. All I want to do is a tasting of all 5-7 drinks, putting them in a row in front of me and giving each one a rating. But so far, it hasn't been possible to do so. Next time I will definitely do this and describe the result ...
Tired of absorbing incredible amounts of beer, one day I decided to arrange a "Red Wine Festival" for myself. But after lunch there was a bummer: this wonderful drink of the Sun suddenly ended. I took upon myself this sin: too zealously I undertook the fulfillment of my desire.
The promised restoration of wine stocks in the lobby bar at 17-00 no longer mattered to me: I returned to the old beer course with a gradual increase in the strength of drinks, up to forty-five degrees OUZO (aka Sambuk, aka Rakia) .
All drinks are dispensed according to the norm - two glasses per hand. But you can approach, especially in the lobby bar, at least ten times.
Yes, one more thing: the most “powerful” in terms of assortment and volume is the round-the-clock lobby bar. The bar of the restaurant, which is open during lunch and dinner, also has everything, but a limited amount - a lot ends quickly. But this is not a problem: below it on the ground floor there is a lobby bar - you can wind it up on the elevator so as not to spill drinks on the stairs. There are three more bars - on the island, but without alcohol and without beer - this is so that drunken men do not fall into the sea and drown, as well as on the beach and in the pool.
Read more about their impressions below.
After the animation, as an option, a lobby bar, at least until the morning - without the fear that when you check out on the last day of your resort, they will put up a "tidy sum" for the drinks you consumed after 24-00. bar around the clock!
Disco
At half past twelve at night, here in one of the rooms in the hotel lobby, a disco hall is arranged. The hall is huge, as for a hotel, and tastefully decorated, no worse than in a five-star hotel where I have previously been. Even in some positions I liked it more.
The disco is great. Too bad there aren't many people. On my first visit, only two tipsy girls danced, periodically going out to the lobby bar for a new portion of cocktails, and three Arabs recklessly doing a dance “pa” around the girls. Apparently, in this way they tried to seduce them. In subsequent evenings there were up to ten or more people dancing ...
At the resort, you can not sleep until morning.
Anyway, with the sunrise there will be a beach, soft mattresses on sun loungers, fresh beach towels and sleep, with short breaks for swimming in the sea, for breakfast and lunch ...
The territory of the hotel. Nature
The first day of the seven days of rest turned out to be rich in terms of getting to know the Mirage New Hawaii hotel. In addition to the qualities already described above, the design of the hotel territory in terms of architectural and landscape design, as well as landscaping, was no less important for me. The latter is very significant for me, since I am a pagan by nature, in the sense of a zealous admirer of the god of Nature - Pan. Even in my homeland, when I moved to Kyiv two decades ago and had such an opportunity, I chose an apartment in Obolon over the Dnieper to admire the sunrise every morning and the wonderful pictures of Nature at different times of the year. Therefore, here in Hurghada, at the Mirage New Hawaii hotel, I plunged headlong into this man-made oasis in the middle of the desert.
Just enough fresh water and daily plant care and a year-round blooming paradise appears. Naturally, initially it is also necessary to place exotic southern plants in the original order, only for this and not for any other hotel, in accordance with the laws of beauty and landscape design. And the masters of their craft, it seems to me, succeeded. And so I walked around this artificially created by the genius of man park, as if in a museum of Nature. Neatly trimmed rows of shrubs created alleys and at the same time framed small lawns, where you will not see any exotic plants, giant flowers and dwarf trees. And the names are such that you will not remember.
In the first days I got acquainted with the hotel and, in fact, got to know it. And in this he found special pleasure. Such is my nature: to strive for the new and the unknown, to discover the secret and beautiful in this World. And in such cases, among the routine and everyday life, there is a surge - what? – it’s hard to explain, maybe emotional, spiritual…
So it was on a microscale, with reference to any individual elements of landscape gardening compositions and elements. But, breaking away from particulars and looking (conditionally) from a bird's eye view, as far as my imagination allowed me, I saw a certain similarity in this hotel, as well as in other hotels of the first beach line of Hurghada that I have been to. And common to all hotels is the structure of their layout.
These are: the main building almost the entire width of the area allocated by the architect (usually 150-200m) with a huge lobby in the center, elegantly decorated with a mirrored marble floor (how could it be otherwise, the lobby is the face of the hotel, just like the face of a woman ... ) ; in the lobby - the porter service (reception) - the first thing that every vacationer encounters. And just at the reception, the chic ostentatious view of the hotel through its lobby, sometimes for some newly arrived guests, fades, if not completely extinguished. And all because in such a standard architectural layout of residential buildings of the hotel there are some features. And they are next.
In order to accommodate vacationers as much as possible on an area of two and a half hectares allocated to a hotel in the center of Hurghada (and here the land is expensive, especially by the sea), the best structure, like a U-shaped from two to five-story residential buildings (the number of floors is directly proportional to the star rating of the hotel), departing from the main building to the sea itself, you can’t imagine. And this U-shaped structure of the layout of residential buildings immediately caught my eye and disappointed me a little, after a recent visit to Royal Grand Sharm in Sharm El Sheikh on the square, if I'm not mistaken, ten times more and so many times more you can play architectural and landscape fantasy of the designer.
And what will happen to you next - the roots and the logical explanation - in your hometown - in the process of choosing a tour: naturally, you choose cheaper from those offered, sometimes one and a half to two times. Well, who will refuse such a "freebie"?
But this is not a “freebie” at all, but a discount on the uncomfortable location of the room. In the U-shaped structure of the residential buildings of the hotel, there are comfortable rooms with an inside view, and there are the same number of rooms with a view of the outside. It’s good if it’s a street view in the main building, like in the Sand Beach Hotel - a bit noisy from the busy main street of Hurghada, but still better than a view of a wasteland with a swamp and mosquitoes, like from the back of the El Samaka hotel buildings beach. So, when you check in, you, of course, are settled in a room “according to the tickets purchased”, but in the cheapest one in terms of the view from the window (the quality of repairs and furniture is now out of the question - this is a special topic). So it was with one of the vacationers from the Donbass, who drove with me to the hotel "Mirage New Hawaii": I did not have time to get the keys to the room at the reception (reception), as he came running and demanded another room with claims: "What I owe seven days to look at the bare wall of a nearby hotel?
” They explained him correctly: “What you paid for, you got it, and the view of the sea is more expensive! » That's right. You have to pay for everything! Moreover, giving $5-10 in black cash to the porter (reception) is still cheaper than overpaying $50-100 for a comfortable room with a sea view when buying a tour. Black cash is not taxed. So do not be indignant and use this loophole to reduce the cost of your comfortable stay while there is such an opportunity. Because they can cover it. Especially after such analytics as in this article of mine.
In the main building, in addition to the lobby and the porter service (reception), usually located: the main restaurant, lobby bar, billiard room, gym, disco and everything else that should be, according to the stars of the hotel.
And before going out into the courtyard there is almost always a terrace, below there is a stage for animation and concerts, and then a series of pools of various depths and a garden with exotic plants, which I wrote about earlier.
In three-star hotels, sometimes, as in El Samaka Beach, instead of swimming pools, bungalows are installed, which increases the number of rooms for holidaymakers.
Sea. Beach
About the sea, in connection with the peculiarities of the architectural structure of the hotel, it is possible in more detail. As if a continuation of the buildings, far into the sea, for 100 meters or more, there are bulk piers with sunbeds and umbrellas with dried and woven palm leaves. The length of these bulk piers depends on the distance from the shore of the sea strip, where a decent depth begins with the opportunity for vacationers to snorkel and see the delights of the Red Sea from the inside. There is no such pleasure at the Mirage New Hawaii hotel, since the bulk pier continues with a pier on stilts, to which a dozen pleasure boats of medium displacement moor. Naturally, diving from such a pier and swimming under these ships is prohibited.
But the area of the sea to these ships is well equipped: there are two huge islands with everything you need to relax, including a bar.
I want to disappoint fans of underwater excursions with a mask: there are very few fish and other marine life. One day, I specially swam from the beach for the entire length of this lagoon and met only two not colored, but some kind of transparent fish ...And only at the farthest edge of the lagoon, under a wooden canopy, I saw flocks of medium-sized fish, including multi-colored . The scarcity of marine life at the resorts in Hurghada, in my opinion, is explained by the fact that in pursuit of a comfortable and shallow beach, sand brought from the desert is filled with corals, most of which are already dead from the insane ecological “activity” of the same person. It is possible that household, construction waste and sewerage are dumped into the sea.
At least in Hurghada, I have never seen a single sewage truck or garbage truck. And this is with at least hundreds of thousands of vacationers in Hurghada.
However, the beach at Mirage New Hawaii is great. Sandy, clean and well maintained. It is good to relax here with children - the depth gradually grows to a meter at a distance of 10-15 meters. There are two bars nearby (one on the island is non-alcoholic), the other has, in addition to beer, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, even a pizza kitchen, various salads and ice cream - for those who are too lazy to go to the main restaurant, or keep their graceful figure .
November 16.2016 Wednesday. Evening night
Birthdays on the Red Sea
I have the second day of rest on the Red Sea. And I always remember that the main purpose of this visit to Egypt is to experience how it celebrates its birthday on the Red Sea.
Although there are still four days before my event, but today I was lucky to participate in this event, even the anniversary, of my friend Rai from Boryspil.
In the morning, nothing foreshadowed this unique event. But just before dinner, approaching the beach bar to quench his thirst with a beer, he noticed two pretty ladies at the bar who were discussing something vividly. My appearance aroused their interest in me, as in their countryman, and immediately a bottle of liter Ukrainian vodka Khlebny Dar appeared from somewhere, and I was asked to drink to the health of the birthday girl, who turned out to be one of these pretty ladies. Naturally, I did not refuse ...I did not refuse the second and third cups either ...
I want to notice how easily people converge and get acquainted in a relaxed atmosphere on vacation at the resort.
You can easily say hello to any woman of any age and ask how you are relaxing - and this will already be a reason to get to know each other, especially since there are plenty of interesting topics for communication: from impressions of the Red Sea to problems with settling in a hotel or the quality and variety of food in a restaurant. Along the way, to revive the conversation, you can insert a couple of anecdotes or aphorisms - they themselves suddenly pop up when necessary.
At the same time, you remember how closed, self-centered people are in big cities, for example, in Moscow, St. Petersburg or Kyiv. In Moscow - especially, but Kyiv is psychologically still a more open city and more conducive to communication. I am talking about this not unfounded, since I have lived in each of these cities for more than one year (in Kyiv - a quarter of a century, in Moscow - three years, in St. Petersburg - a little less).
) for several months in a row on the basis of DOL "Cascade".
And that's why I never had problems with acquaintances and friends at the resort. And the current acquaintance, especially with the birthday girl, was supposed to continue at a gala dinner in the restaurant where I was invited. I want to note that holidays such as anniversaries, birthdays and other significant dates in the resort are celebrated by vacationers almost every day. This is understandable. Because everyone's birthday is "only once a year. " And everyone strives to spend it in such a way that there is something to remember not only until the next birthday, but for life. “But I celebrated my birthday on the Red Sea, ” such a statement already arouses admiration and envy of your friends! For this it is worth a little fuss! Is not it? And therefore, if such opportunities are found, then there will be no stop behind the desire to spend your birthday on the Red Sea.
I wanted to attend a birthday as a guest in order to know in advance what awaits me as the first person at this event in a few days. And avoid small punctures and large breaks. In fact, this is what happened. The cake and the festive table were expected to be set at 20-00, but no one knew about it. And the birthday (aka Anniversary) of my friend had, with resentment and tears, moved to the terrace. Therefore, I advise you in advance, it is better to go to the reception service in the morning and receive a beautifully printed congratulation indicating for the restaurant what time (printed 20-00) and how many invited guests the festive event is designed for. I corrected the time for 18-00 (that is, half an hour before dinner) and put down 12 people with a margin. Why celebrate at the beginning of dinner? - Yes, because no one will be hungry to wait two hours and everyone will go to dinner.
And later the holiday will no longer be so desirable and cheerful, and drinking on a full stomach is somehow out of place. Moreover, in an hour and a half of dinner, vacationers drink almost all the stocks of the best drinks (OUZO, red wine and beer) in the restaurant bar, and every time running to the lobby bar for a portion of alcohol is somehow out of hand.
Rai's birthday was great with songs and lots of fun. And it ended well after midnight (I don’t remember, it is possible that in the morning, but before dawn, as they planned to meet the Sun, no one could stand it). Thanks to the efforts of the hotel administration, there were magnificent congratulations and a particularly delicious cake. Animators, dressed in theatrical costumes and invited to perform on the stage from outside, staged a concert with congratulatory songs.
Speaking of songs: thanks to the well-staged and loud voice of the hero of the day, songs, primarily Ukrainian folk, sounded all evening and after midnight we were asked several times to sing quieter ...
That night, I made sure that the lobby bar at the Mirage New Hawaii hotel is open around the clock. As for me, it was a pleasant discovery. For everyone else, no less, as it allowed an unlimited number of times for us, four men with bracelets "all-inclusive", with a frequency of 10-15 minutes to visit a nearby lobby bar to supply a cheerful company with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. There was no stop for toasts, including "alaverdi" ...And the name of alcoholic drinks no longer matters had: they drank, as they say, everything that is on “Sha” - everything, “sho” will be served ...
Shorts are allowed in the main restaurant for breakfast, lunch and dinner, although there is a written warning that shorts are not allowed for dinner. But no one expressed claims to violators during my entire vacation. Yes, I myself often went to the restaurant in the evening in shorts. But in the Chinese restaurant, he decided to dress more seriously: after all, a special restaurant, exclusive, and by appointment.
Both restaurants: both Chinese and Italian are located on the second floor of the main building next to the main Mediterranean restaurant. External design and design is really under China. In this regard, everything is as it should be: paintings, panels and everything else. Even music with Chinese motives. But, as I expected, neither the geisha, nor the Chinese waiter, and the original Chinese dishes, I did not try here. True, the waiter is an Arab, but whether in jest, or did not understand my question, but when I saw a piece of floating meat in vegetable soup, I asked: “Turtle soup?
", He unperturbedly replied: " From the turtle! » Encouraged by my own self-deception, I enjoyed this soup to the very bottom. But such self-deception did not work out with the second dish: this dish was painfully like an ordinary chicken grown on growth stimulants - bioadditives and did not look like sushi either in appearance or in taste. And another bummer: my favorite drink “OUZO” and beer were no longer available: the entire supply was drunk by the previous people who visited this restaurant an hour earlier (the record, it turns out, was at 19-00 and 20-00). Therefore, I advise you: if you want to try any drink in this restaurant, sign up first! In addition, you will have time to eat in the main restaurant, if after the Chinese you remain, for sure, hungry. Knowing this, according to the reviews that I read before flying to Egypt, I ate a lot in the main restaurant before the Chinese.
Of course, not to the eyeballs, but like that, I left 10 percent of the volume of the stomach for a possible surprise in a Chinese restaurant. And therefore he was cheerful, because he was full, and he was philosophical about such, to put it mildly, humor in a Chinese restaurant. And I devoured all the dishes served in this restaurant not without pleasure - and only because of respect for the hotel staff, who are trying so hard to somehow preserve the former service of the restaurant. After all, the hotel staff is not guilty that there is a crisis in the country and it is impossible to jump above yourself ...
In the end, what I wanted was for me for $ 270 (7000 UAH) and twice a plane ride to another continent, they provided a luxurious double room for one, they gave me four times to eat and drink, including alcohol, to satiety, yes also the wonders of the Red Sea? . . Yes, we, in fact, just "fat" ...And we criticize the resorts of Egypt on all sites, sometimes sucking the negatives out of our fingers!
The dawn that had begun, froze for an indefinite time. I was waiting for the sun to appear, but it still wasn't there. And so it went on for two, three, five, ten minutes...
And it seemed to me that there was some hidden action going on. The whole World is being transformed, leaving the realm of Darkness and Evil into the realm of Light and Good. I felt that it was at this moment that a struggle was taking place between these two principles of our World: a moment ago, the sovereign Night did not want to cede its power over the World to anyone. But in the end, she was forced to obey the Law established by the Almighty: Good has the same rights to this World as Evil. And therefore, the Evil of the Night must, for some time, cede its power over the World to the Good. And the fiery point of the edge of the Sun, which appeared with a delay of several minutes because of the clouds on the horizon, put a convincing end to this dispute in favor of Day and Good.
With the appearance of the Sun in the firmament, the whole World began to play and I heard the sounds of this divine music with my inner ear. It was the joy of the dawning Day!
But Man wakes up - the source of Good and Evil in our world, and everything begins to change - in different places in different ways. Here, in places of joy and happiness, which is the resort, the Good of Man prevails over his Evil. And therefore, throughout the day here, the Soul is at ease and pleasant. And in real life, in cities, in the conditions of the accumulation of a large number of people, when there are many temptations to arrange comfort for the mortal body to the detriment of the Soul, moral norms and etiquette of the mutual coexistence of people, a huge club of Evil is born, which fills all the space in this place and begins grow like an avalanche. There is a struggle between natural daytime Good and Evil, born of Man. (Especially sensitive people feel it at a subtle level, like a kind of black cloud).
And therefore, Man, as a violator of the initial balance of Good and Evil, sadly, must be destroyed ...If he continues to do Evil contrary to the Almighty, to please the Devil. This is how the inevitability of the End of the World is explained simply.
This unique process of changing the polarity of our World at dawn and the influence of man on the balance of Good and Evil, I observed back in Alushta, in the summer. But in Crimea there are no pure resorts, as there are in Egypt or Turkey - large areas filled only with vacationers and service personnel who provide this vacation. There are still many other categories of people there – local residents, for example, pensioners, the unemployed, the homeless, who, as in other places, due to the peculiarities of living conditions, are not a source of Good, but, most likely, Evil. And therefore, in such places, in contrast, there is a particularly sensitive human evil brought into our World.
Afternoon of heavenly life in Hurghada
I did not have time to look back, as already half the term of my stay on the Red Sea was over. And my whole vacation seemed to me like one bright and joyful day, followed by a winter night with snowfalls, frosts and the oppressed bad weather of my beloved friend - Nature. And today is the noon of this brief happiness of mine. And after - everything will inexorably slide towards the evening and night. And therefore, starting from today, I will not count the days spent at the resort, but how many of them are left.
From the very morning I am at the sea: before breakfast I met the dawn, and from ten in the morning I bask under the gentle rays of the Sun, caressing my body. Stretching on a sunbed with my eyes closed, catching a buzz. I thought: there is happiness in life like this, to live carelessly on everything ready, to think about the beautiful, if you want to create no less beautiful and drive away thoughts about raising housing and communal services tariffs, about a possible war, even a nuclear one ( mind you, mind me! ).
You can dine not only in the main restaurant, but also here, in the beach bar - pizza and salads, plus any drinks in any quantity. Some women who watch their waist with an aspen do just that.
Today I am on the main beach, about two hundred meters long and about twenty meters wide. The beach is sandy, like the whole bay is covered with sand from the desert. But in the water, in this artificial lagoon, there is also a lot of gravel, which has not yet been rolled by the sea into round pebbles. Here there are no waves at all, as in a closed reservoir, only sometimes the water of the tides rises and falls quietly and imperceptibly.
On the beach, shade-houses, common for Egyptian resorts, are installed in the idea of umbrellas made from dried palm leaves. There are three rows of such umbrellas, twelve in each. Therefore, up to two hundred vacationers can be accommodated on sunbeds under them. But at this time - no more than thirty people.
I couldn't believe it) I quickly rolled up my towel and leaned on the blown island on stilts. There are the same sunbeds and umbrellas, but without flies.
After lunch, the sun rolls incredibly quickly towards sunset: by four it already begins to get dark, and at five it is dark. And at this time, the performance begins with a massive attack on mosquitoes with a hand cannon roaring like two turbojet aircraft, as if two men dragged a plane into the hotel and turned on all its engines at full power! Another Arab, apparently, is insuring him so that the first one does not fall off his hooves from the vile stench - the smell is like from kerosene, and the thick gray smoke, like from a big forest fire, is higher than the roof of the five-story hotel building. I took the photo from the sea, about two hundred meters. I was afraid to come closer for my health: so as not to get stuck together with a mosquito ...
From such a gas-noise attack, mosquitoes knock away - to the leeward side, and when I was sitting on the terrace in this direction, they pounced on me with their whole mass, but not for long: apparently, having swallowed a dose of this caustic smoke and being shell-shocked from an incredible sound, they fell to me under your feet. And the people (vacationers) - nothing, very much even survived. They (people) are not accustomed to such "ecology", breathing chemistry for years, as I did when I was in Zaporozhye near the "Koksokhimzavod", where I happened to live for 25 years.
And if you run into the room in time and close it with "three bolts", then you won't even hear the smell in five minutes.
So these two men process all the hotels in a row, except for those that do not function (and, therefore, they do not pay for their unhealthy work, no one will lift a finger there either). From there, mosquitoes come with renewed vigor.
And as for the flies, the Mirage New Hawaii hotel has such nice transparent plastic fly houses with top dressing hanging on trees throughout the territory. Flies with great pleasure, as I noticed, flock to these houses, like our birdhouses, and devour the delicacy prepared by him, apparently, along with a dose of poison. And there is nothing wrong in terms of aesthetics and violation of park design in this. On the contrary, they even bring some local exoticism into landscape design. And there are no flies.
As a result: the fact that mosquitoes and flies in November on the Red Sea is an objective reality given to us in sensations during a crisis period. And you have to come to terms with this.
Late evening.
Night absorbs all daytime creatures, including humans, dragging them into a sleepy realm. And it releases, mainly, nocturnal predators ...Just not at the resort, and this is not about a Man. At the resort, human activity shifts its maximum value from daytime to nighttime.
And the question involuntarily arises: “But does not a person turn into a predator, similarly to night predators in Nature? » In ordinary life, this is often the case: all thieves and robbers go out to their trade. When it gets dark. But it is there, and here they rest ...
The resort is the opposite. During the day, especially in the summer heat, what do they do? They only eat and sleep, sunbathing on the beach. Sometimes they swim, bathe or play volleyball. Yes, they also drink beer and various non-alcoholic and low-alcohol drinks, such as cocktails. And only in the evening, the energy accumulated in them during the day is released. And if strong alcoholic drinks are added, then the excitement can last until the morning. And during the day, sleep and eat again. And so in a circle...
November 19.2016 Saturday
Two days before departure
I no longer count how many days I have left to rest on the Red Sea. I don't care! Is it possible to estimate in days the number of events that have occurred since my arrival at the Mirage New Hawaii Hotel?
You don’t even need to create precedents for these events yourself, you just need to surrender to the natural flow of time and what is already prepared for you as part of the tour or extra - for an additional fee: from animation to an endless number of excursion programs, including walks on a yacht in the red sea. By the way, the very nature of the Red Sea, even without outside interference, is fraught with an inexhaustible number of secrets, miracles and is ready to open them before you. And this will be reflected in your memory by an infinite number of events that also prolong your spiritual life to infinity. For this, you just need to open your Soul, look in such a way that you can see all this and not only with your eyes, but with your inner vision, and also hear and perceive the world with other senses. And, moreover, to learn to perceive the world with the sense organs of the Soul.
And rest at the resort allows you to do this, freeing you from the hustle and bustle of everyday problems. So take advantage of this! Perhaps in your homeland, in ordinary life, you will not lose these abilities.
Is it really possible to appreciate the days of life in the resort that inspired by this paradise life and laid down on paper with small beads of words? If it wasn't for the resort, it might never have come into being. God grant that those who will read these lines understand me. And so you don’t want to lose what has already arrived when you leave. This is always the case: what has been achieved is already considered the norm of life, from which it should continue to be better. And by the end of the resort, there is an oppressive sadness about the imminent cessation of continuous joys and carefree life and the beginning of the viscous dullness of everyday life, absorbing your whole life without a trace, if you give it complete freedom.
And I only have two days left! ...Is it a lot or a little?
And if the departure from the starting point is in the evening, and from the resort airport in the morning, then you lose two more days, and only four days out of seven remain! Of these four days, minus half a day for a hotel guide who will try to sell you a tourist package at exorbitant prices; half a day more to fend off annoying sellers, etc. Or a whole day for scandals in the service of the porter (reception) ...As a result, there will be practically nothing left for rest.
Therefore, I would advise you when choosing a tour and in the process of rest, take into account all the above points and appreciate the resort time!
November 20.2016 Sunday
Belly dance
Tonight there are two crown Egyptian dances in the animation program: "Belly Dance" and "Dance with Skirts". Undoubtedly, examples of folk Egyptian choreography are shown, the roots of which are in ancient times.
Moreover, when you watch the belly dance of this young graceful Egyptian, you yourself move into the depths of the thousand-year history of Egypt. Such is the contagious power of this dance.
And I, linking the centuries, imagined the palace of a rich Egyptian or the sheikh himself, concubines, each of whom tried to show their true beauty, charm and sexuality, compared to a hundred or a thousand other concubines and wives, primarily in a dance to please their master . After all, human physiology provides that a man loves with his eyes. And therefore, it is the Belly Dance that is the way of visual perception of female beauty and sexuality, which a man perceives so sensitively, according to his nature.
Further, if possible, to realize the true female beauty and sexuality, the chest protrudes, behind it - a graceful waist, slender legs, unusually flexible arms and ...a face, a smile on the face. By the way, the dancer's head is practically motionless with any body movements (except for the neck) ...That is why the dancer pays the most attention to the “dance of the hips” and then, in descending order, to the “dance” of all other elements of the body.
Perhaps next after the hips, in importance in this dance, as in any other dance, should be the legs. Indeed, in all dances, the legs play the main and decisive role, whether it be waltz, tango, and, moreover, Charleston and twist. And in this dance, the dancer's legs, of course, play a big role in terms of the girl's movement around the stage and performing various virtuoso dance "pas" to the beat of the music. But all the same, these movements are "obscured" by elements of the movement of the hips, chest, waist, arms and neck.
I, as a man, perceive these hands with such tenderness - hugging and so sensitively show the love of the girl to the one they hug (by the way, the amazing impression of this dance: it seems to every man that these hands are hugging him ... ), and the vibrating movements other parts of the girl's body to the beat of music (hips, chest, waist) and in general her whole body clearly speaks of her passion ...And all this, of course, excites the sexual passion of a man.
This "culture" of Belly Dance gives it the meaning of high art, conquers the hearts and souls of people of no less high level of spiritual and aesthetic development.
I am only surprised by one thing, why exactly in Egypt, Central Asia and the Middle East this art of belly dancing could originate, and not here in the European part, for example, in Ukraine, in Russia or in the West? And why exactly in these countries Belly dancing is given such a big role in sexual games
? It seems that the physiology of our men is the same, and they also perceive female beauty and sexuality with their eyes ...But the Belly Dance in the historical past did not take root with us. Although, as we saw on the belly dance of an Egyptian girl, the effect is huge ...
And all because, firstly, unlike the countries of Central Asia and the Middle East, the peculiarities of our climate do not allow walking half-naked all year round and performing the Belly Dance. And what is a belly dance under a fur coat? - Impossible to imagine!
And secondly, polygamy is not practiced and has never been practiced in our country, such as, for example, the Sultan has up to 1000 or more wives or another Asian is slightly poorer and slightly smaller wives. Feeding and dressing up such a horde is one thing, but try to please! – You can’t do without Belly Dance and special potions, and this is confirmed by historical paintings (and films) of the past.
Probably, the roots of Viagra are from there ...In our case, with a monogamous family, there was no need for all these stimulants of male "creative activity". In contrast to the belly dance, we have “invented” various erotic dances on a pole and without it ...But this is a topic for another conversation ...
Dance with skirts
This is a male dance and therefore, in many respects, it has not been completely unraveled. First of all, the combination of a man and skirts no longer fits. After all, the skirt in our usual view is traditionally women's clothing. And here a man and, moreover, a Muslim, who even according to Sharia should be higher than a woman in many respects, suddenly dresses up in women's clothes and, moreover, dances in front of everyone! Even here, in Ukraine and Russia, dressing up a man in women's clothes and admiring himself is considered a mental deviation of moderate severity.
But, to the credit of the dancer, I will say that he performs the Dance with skirts masterfully - the highest class!
His vestibular apparatus never ceases to amaze me: quickly, like a whirligig, revolve around itself dozens, if not a hundred times, and at least something - zero reaction! Of mere mortals, only an astronaut can endure this. And there are hundreds of such dance masters in Egypt. When you walk in the evening in Sharm El Sheikh along the main street, every ten to twenty meters, like an advertisement for a restaurant or other public institution - a dancing man with skirts ...And here, at the hotel - this beauty is delivered to your home. This is really an art: the dancer gives himself completely to the dance, lives by the dance. He is a dance, and there is nothing else and no one around! This is how I imagined a self-contained, self-sufficient dance with skirts. And a male dance, although there are no purely male attributes in this dance, such as swords (dance with swords). And there are no sexual motives, as in the Belly Dance of a young Arab woman.
So what is the meaning behind this dance?
I went through various explanations for a long time and painfully, and finally, like lightning, such an option arose.
The deep meaning of the Dance with skirts is hidden in the skirt itself, when it opens up in the form of a disc during the rotation of the dancer! Disk, circle is a symbol of our World! Our Earth is round, and the visible part of it is presented to each of us in the form of a disk, in the center of which he himself is located. How is this not an analogy with a dancer in the center of developing skirts? This is very symbolic: a person stands in the center of the World and rotates it as he wants. That is, the meaning of the dance is the dominion of a man over the World! The man is in charge of everything! And it fits into the norms and rules of Shariah. This is an axiom and no "gender" that is gaining strength in the West will be able to shake it in the next hundred years. And therefore it is not surprising that this dance originated and found its development in Egypt with such centuries-old traditions.
November 20.2016 Sunday
The penultimate day of a creative business trip
The penultimate day of my creative trip to the Red Sea. Why did I suddenly decide to call my resort vacation in Egypt a creative business trip? - Yes, all because I almost fulfilled my creative plan: I covered ten of the fourteen sheets of paper I took with me in small handwriting. Exactly two days left of my stay on the Red Sea. “A little bit of good” is something that I am not used to and do not consider for myself the norm of life - a resort on the Cross Sea. But I understand that for me the Red Sea is one of the stages (after the Black Sea in Crimea) of the knowledge of beauty. And there are so many more wonderful things in the world than the Red Sea. Apparently, only Egypt was able to slightly open up to us, millions of people of the middle class, to join one of the wonders of the world - the Red Sea.
After five days of my current stay at the resort in Hurghada and with fresh memory of the rest in Sharm El Sheikh, I can say about the difference between the Red Sea here and there.
These are different seas, although these two resorts are separated from each other by a small strait some hundred kilometers wide Between Africa and Asia Minor. And the point here is not at all in this water barrier, but in the fact that Hurghada is located on the mainland and here, as elsewhere in the world, civilization is slowly but surely destroying Nature, though not completely yet. And this is the glory of God! Greedy man comes into conflict with Nature: in order to improve his well-being exorbitantly, he robs Nature more than she can give him. As a result, Nature is depleted and in the end it may disappear altogether, and in the future, man himself will disappear as a part of Nature ...But this is in the future, perhaps in more than one hundred years.
And in such bays-lagoons there are practically no waves, since there are three hundred meters to the open sea, and all waves are extinguished even at the entrance to these lagoons by bulk piers, which simultaneously act as breakwaters. Only ebbs and flows fluctuate the sea level in a difference of several tens of centimeters.
To make good use of the bay area between these artificial piers, this hotel has built two large islands of wooden beams on stilts. On these islands of rest, as well as on the shore and on bulk piers, there are wooden deck chairs with mattresses, and above them there are sunshades in the form of umbrellas made of dried palm leaves. From each island there is a metal ladder so that it is convenient to go into the sea for swimming.
All this is nice and good. Except for one thing: the nature of the wonderful Red Sea has disappeared! Man adjusted Nature for himself, for his pleasure, without asking Nature, but is it pleasant for her?
This year, this is my third hotel in Hurghada, where I rested. But, none of them is so full of exotic fish, moray eels, turtles, stingrays and octopuses near the shore, as in Sharm El Sheikh. Today I swam with a mask from the beach itself to the last island (it's about two hundred meters) and met only one small fish of a translucent color. And only under the last pontoon - flocks of fish, sometimes colored. And in order to see the real Red Sea with its exotic inhabitants and capture all this miracle in the photo, you need to take an excursion to the reef. Pleasure boats, and there are more than ten of them, are waiting for you right there on the pier!
Cloudy morning and evening
Today, for the first time in six days of rest, the sky was covered with such solid and impenetrable clouds that it was impossible for the Sun to break through them before lunch. And this happens in Egypt in November. We usually start to rain in such situations. But here it passed: after all, Africa!
I was surprised by the girls who again drove into the hotel, asking me with horror: “Are there such clouds here every day? "But I, having shown them my tanned, almost chocolate-colored body, - in just five days, I calmed them down, and they peacefully went to breakfast ...
The sun still appeared for a couple of hours at lunchtime, melting these uninvited guests - the clouds - with its heat. And therefore, Nature was not so harmful for vacationers as it was in the morning: it gave everyone who wished plenty to take their souls and pamper their bodies under the rays of the gentle southern sun, gracious and moderately hot. After all, it cannot be compared with the deadly burning, which it happens in July and, especially, in the month of August. I don’t say this unfounded, but as a person who experienced such a “good” in excessive quantities just three months ago, and based on fresh impressions, I can compare these two pictures ...
But this joy for beachgoers was only 2-3 hours.
This is the last day of my stay at the Red Sea. I will not hide, incredible sadness: I imagine the autumn cold and slush - there, far away in Kyiv. And I compare with grace here in Egypt on the Red Sea. The only thing that brightened up today for me was my birthday and the upcoming evening celebration, which the hotel administration should arrange for me during dinner ...
Many wish to celebrate their birthday in Egypt, on the Red Sea or in some other exotic resort in the world. And some succeed. (I did it this year too).
How the hotel reacts to such a significant date of its clients-holidays, I saw from the outside during a holiday in many resorts, and even was a participant in such a celebration five days ago. And today I had to experience this happiness for myself ...
And the reality exceeded all my expectations.
So, by six o'clock in the evening, by the time the main restaurant opened for dinner, the waiters of the restaurant prepared a festive table, according to the preliminary order, for 12 people. Three tables connected together and covered with a white tablecloth, with a bouquet of flowers in a vase in the middle and neatly arranged cutlery with champagne glasses - all this created an unusual festive atmosphere, even here on the Red Sea at the Mirage New Hawaii hotel, where every day is - holiday. And this special holiday was prepared for us by the chefs and waiters of the restaurant. For this I am very grateful to them and one only has to wonder how they could find time to prepare the festive table for us so carefully and tastefully. After all, I understand how densely they are loaded from early morning until late at night in order to tasty feed and serve more than one hundred vacationers at a high level, among which there are many unnecessarily fastidious ...
After the friends invited for the birthday from all over Ukraine, as well as from Belarus, took everything they wanted from the buffet (and for dinner in this hotel there is always the opportunity to realize almost all your desires), and champagne was poured ( prepared in advance), restaurant employees appeared in the restaurant hall with a birthday cake and, approaching the table, sang a happy birthday greeting in a harmonious chorus: “Happy byes day…”
After that, they invited the birthday boy and all the guests to a dance, which we all danced together to the applause of the audience - all, at that time, those who were vacationing in the restaurant.
Thanking the owners of the restaurant, we began the usual festive feast with toasts, jokes, impressions of the rest, etc. Fortunately, since everyone was on the “All inclusive” system, there were no problems, neither with a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, nor all sorts of dishes to eat after another toast ...
And after an hour and a half, eating a cake skillfully prepared specially for this occasion, everyone thought: “Yes, almost like at home and comfort ... ” The holiday was a success!
November 26.2016 Saturday
Human Feelings and Perspective
After Egypt and acclimatization (not only in terms of the weather, but also in a creative attitude) to new, long-forgotten old conditions, I continue my usual life. And the priority is creativity. (Well, where can I get away from him, like from my own child? ) Five days have already passed after Egypt, but I still continue to live by the Red Sea thanks to the inertia of the Soul. I'm not talking about the body. This material reality, an hour after landing in Kyiv, was already ready to enter the Penates of Winter, with its frosts, blizzards and snowfalls. After all, the Soul is not a body and weathervane is not inherent in it! The soul is from another world and it has completely different feelings.
And the physical feelings of the mortal body, of which there are five, are the lot of an obsolete person with a small letter, leaving the high road along which the development of a spiritual person with a capital letter moves!
I thought long and hard about what to call this New Man. I went over its former characteristics (“brow” - forehead, head, brain, think, think) and new ones - insider, creator, Soul, insight). And he recognized as the best option to combine the old basis "age", which means "life" with its new characteristic - "enlightenment" and the name he got was "Ozarwek" - Man of the Future.
And that is why it is time for me to exclaim in despair: “People, in the darkness of hopelessness your path leads you to the abyss! See clearly! Change the direction of your path! »
In abbreviation. Full text: "Holidays in Egypt"
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And in the book: Sasha Sim. Red Sea: Corner of the earthly Paradise. Travel notes from Egypt. - Kyiv: SIM & HAM Publishing House, - 2017. - 535 p. , illus. ISBN 966-8802-17-9
© Sasha Sim (Alexander Golovko), 2017
November 14.2016 Monday
Kyiv. The day before departure.
For a long time I had the idea of celebrating my birthday in an extraordinary setting, for example, in a Red Sea resort. This idea was especially obsessive this year - and all because in Egypt I am already a regular guest and for me its resorts and the Red Sea have become dear, I fell in love with them and they have become a part of my soul. And on your birthday, everyone wants to be together with the closest and dearest. It is almost impossible to invite my beloved ones to me: after all, the Red Sea is not a Stone Guest to go by invitation, and not a Mountain that sometimes deigns to come to Mohammed ...And therefore I myself decided to go (fly) to the sea and arrange a Day there birth. In addition, I felt that this year there would be a breakthrough from unrealizable ideas - to reality!
Looking ahead, I’ll say: my feelings didn’t let me down: I really visited the Red Sea for the first time in my life on my birthday ...And I had such confidence due to the fact that twelve hours before departure, I had a ticket to Hurghada in my hands and an eight-day voucher to the Mirage New Hawaii all inclusive hotel. I stayed true to the principle of choosing a hotel: the first coastline, all-inclusive meals and a hotel with a good reputation (based on reviews from previous guests at the hotel).
I got together quickly. Even on the way home from the travel agency, I sketched out a list of necessary things that you need to take with you. And, moreover, since I often go to such events (resorts) - something like creative business trips, I decided to print this list on a printer so that there would be no problems in the future.
And I also thought of preparing a bag in advance, in which, in addition to this list, I put the maximum possible number of things necessary at the resort, such as a mask with a snorkel, beach shoes, a pharmacy and hygiene kit, several chocolates, two bottles of vodka (customs gives the go-ahead) and etc. - for the case if a "burning" ticket turns up, less than five hours before departure. And I advise you to do the same - then there will be no desperate exclamations: “I forgot (a)! "Didn't take it! "...As a result, we got luggage in the form of a small bag, weighing just over 10 kg, and hand luggage. The most important thing is that there are no prohibited things in hand luggage: from piercing and cutting to alcoholic beverages, plain water and food (and the latter, apparently, is already colluding with food points in the duty free zone and the aircraft crew: drink on the plane alcohol, how much you drink, eat as much as you like, only if you buy from them for a euro!
) Maybe two slightly drunk young men were not allowed to land due to envy that they “got together” not from them, but on the side of UIA.
I didn’t take my laptop with me: I didn’t fly for twenty days, as usual, but only for seven. And I really didn’t want to waste precious resort time, hatching into a laptop screen, to “tap out” the text of “masterpieces” born on the Red Sea for hours with one finger. It's the same idiotically unreasonable activity as watching TV day and night, or spinning a Rubik's Cube during the entire trip around the world. But he took three times more clean sheets of paper than the number of days of rest and three ballpoint pens. In a word, I was “armed” to the teeth to hunt for inspiration.
And therefore, in terms of the scientific organization of creative work (NOT), I preferred to write sketches and impressions from being on the Red Sea in an old-fashioned way, as in the time of Pushkin and Gogol - on paper.
Plus - speed: I write several times faster than I tap on the keyboard with one finger; as well as mobility and efficiency: there is always a pen and paper at hand in order to cut off the passing Inspiration in a raid ...
The route to the airport has been worked out to the smallest detail and tested in previous flights to the resort. And several times more economical than a taxi. Four hours (with a large margin) before departure, I leave the house, go by metro to Kharkivskaya (forty minutes), then on the Sky fly branded bus (it runs clearly, every half an hour, the price is 35 UAH. ) to the airport (twenty minutes on the road) and more than two hours before the start of check-in, I was already at the airport "Borispol" ...
The first check right at the entrance to the terminal is superficial, so that no one carries weapons and explosives. I judge the superficiality of the check by the fact that they are not forced to take off their shoes. After this check, the luggage is no longer checked and should be loaded onto the aircraft.
And a thorough check to the smallest detail with the swelling and removal of any liquid (water, drink, beer or alcohol) is already at the entrance to the boarding area of the terminal. Therefore, knowing all this, even at home I scattered luggage and carry-on luggage about what is possible and what is not. Therefore, no problems have ever arisen. I don’t recommend to hand over things that have not passed customs to the luggage room at the airport: the price of storage during your vacation can increase to several hundred, or even thousands of hryvnias.
This time I was “lucky” to fly on a plane of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA). I haven’t flown with this airline for a long time and therefore I was “pleasantly” surprised by the security measures for passengers. Why did I use quotes ("") twice? - Yes, because they did not allow two tipsy men to land (and their wives and children left the landing with them - real friends, like the wives of the Decembrists! ). To my question: “Why do people spoil their vacation?
They are not drunk and stand on their feet! ”, followed the answer of the stewardess: “They are in flight the plane is turned upside down (?! ). You don't want an emergency landing at an alternate airfield, do you? This is how the resort in Hurghada ended for five people ...And we (there were about 200 of us) lost a total of ten days of rest: we delayed the flight for an hour, while a dozen policemen arrived, “persuaded” the “violators” to go to terminal, and then searched for their luggage for a long time in the “belly” of the plane.
Therefore, if you are flying on a UIA plane, do not try to “take it on your chest” on the eve of boarding the plane, even if they try to take your favorite drink from your hand luggage during inspection, or you bought it in duty free and there is an irresistible desire to experience the quality alcohol, without leaving the cash register, in order to make a claim, in which case ...The main Cerberus in this respect on the plane is the stewardess, and therefore, even if you drank a beer the day before and there is a smell, silently gently smile at her! And everything will be all right!
It seems to me that this is ostentatious security against passengers, and not against terrorists: a big man in a poison-colored vest with the inscription “Security” on the back and two more agents in civilian clothes walks openly around the cabin. And they make remarks to those male passengers who gather in twos or threes and pass a plastic bottle with an indefinite liquid around in a circle ...
Yes, in the end, it is not the flight attendant who should determine “by eye” the suitability of a particular passenger for a flight, but an express analysis of the alcohol content in the blood. If there is no such ground, then in court the injured passengers, including the remaining 200 people, can challenge the illegal actions of the aircraft crew and sue UIA.
And further. In order not to deviate far from the topic of air transportation of passengers, I would like to note the conspicuous commercialization of this process: flight attendants unobtrusively defill the cabin with foreign exchange goods, drinks and alcohol on trolleys and offer passengers. And the prices are...
November 14-15.2016 Monday Tuesday
And Egypt again!
I frequented something on the Red Sea. I have been to the Red Sea more often than to Kyiv. “And why are you so betraying Kyiv after so many laudatory odes to it? ', anyone will ask. Answer: Kyiv is in my heart (I love it! ), and the Red Sea is in my Soul (it sunk into my soul).
I love Kyiv with all my heart, and my Soul clings to Nature, the bright and unique embodiment of which is the Red Sea. Before that, there was the Black Sea and Crimea. But…
Maybe I'm still a pagan! But in general, I love Nature, regardless of its content: the Black Sea, the Red Sea or the Dnieper with wonderful coastal forests and other diverse vegetation, morning fogs and dew diamonds on every leaf ...And the Red Sea is exotic!
So, after several vain attempts to search and buy cheap, but "cool" tours to Egypt, to Sharm El Sheikh to five-star hotels, when the newly appeared interesting options immediately disappear, you don’t even have time to get to your travel agency, which guarantees you and a 5% discount, I settled on the 4 * hotel option "Mirage New Hawaii" in Hurghada, which, as it turned out later, is in many respects no worse than the average five-star hotels.
And my persistence in finding a tour is due to the fact that this year, by the way, for the first time in my life, I decided to celebrate my birthday at a resort on the Red Sea. He even ignored the completion and delivery to the printer of the tenth volume of his complete works. And, in the end, why am I worse than others who are so happy to receive a surprise from the hotel administration in the form of a chic festive table with a white tablecloth, a basket of fruits and a big cake, which I have repeatedly observed in the hotels of Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada during the previous your tours? . . But all this should be for me only in a week, on the last day of my vacation: this tour has just arrived in time. In the meantime, I just stepped on the concrete surface of the Hurghada airfield, so that after the mandatory procedures at customs, visas and passport procedures, I can get on the bus and get to this coveted place on the Red Sea coast.
Until now, my inert, and even conservative nature cannot link two events into one whole of my being in a difference of only four hours. On the one hand, the cold, frost, snow and ice of Kyiv, on the other hand, the summer of Egypt, gushing with a riot of tropical Nature, fish and corals of the warm Red Sea . . Waiting in these conditions on the Kharkiv residential area for a bus to the airport is still fresh in my memory - this night when I was freezing in the piercing wind and shivering from the cold, feeling oppressed, forgotten by fate and useless to anyone.
And in this discomfort, it seemed to me that the whole world wants to get rid of me, destroy me, and I’m defenseless like that - I can’t do anything ...But I knew that an airliner was waiting for me - this is a miracle of scientific and technological progress, which is capable of a fairy tale for two hundred of its passengers make it a reality, break the tradition that has been established for thousands of years, when after a rainy and slushy autumn winter should come with bitter frosts and blizzards, and will invite us to plunge into all the benefits of summer again ...
November 15.2016 Tuesday
Weather in Hurghada in November
Upon arrival at 8 am, Hurghada pleased with the coolness - exactly that comfortable coolness that is pleasant for the body - 20? S. And this is in comparison with that unbearable heat and scorching wind from the desert, even in such morning hours when I flew here in the summer in the past.
But not the same as in many hotels in Sharm El Sheikh, and, in particular, in the Royal Grand Sharm 5 * hotel, where I was this summer, ankle-deep for a hundred meters and corals that emerge on the surface of the sea during low tides. And quite acceptable for swimming - up to one and a half meters deep after a dozen and a half meters with its gradual deepening. This is especially nice for children. Although during this period there were children of preschool age, mostly in prams. Of course, school… But I can imagine what is happening here in the summer, during school holidays… But, alas, today is the second half of November and all our children gnaw at the science of knowledge in schools. And only some of these children, who were lucky enough to be here, on the Red Sea, have only good memories of colored fish and other delights of this wonderful land.
The sun
The sun in November in the resorts of Egypt is softer and much more favorable to your body, compared to its incredible pungency in summer. So you can spend the whole day, from early morning until sunset, with short breaks for breakfast and lunch, basking under its rays or under canopies of palm leaves - never get burned. And no need to hide from him at noon in an air-conditioned room. For example, I lay under the sun at noon for about three hours in one position (more precisely, I was sleeping, as they say, “without hind legs”, after a sleepless night of intercontinental flights) and nothing - the tan very evenly and without redness adorned my back. But I imagined how burnt to a crimson red I would be if I allowed myself such a luxury here, in July - August. And he was horrified.
And now, satisfied with the climate of the velvet season, after such a long stay under the sun, he plunged into the sea, driving away the remnants of sleep and slowly went to take a delicious dinner. After all, it's time for lunch. After all, in fact, I woke up (paradox! ) from the unusual silence around: the usual "clamor" of vacationers and the usual sounds of splashing water from swimmers were not heard: the entire beach, except for a few people who are not on the "all inclusive" system, but those very few, quietly gathered and left for lunch.
Dinner
In fact, as it was later confirmed, there was something to strive for: the dinner turned out to be very impressive. Perhaps this was after a “hungry” flight, since they stopped feeding on the planes, and the “barbarians” took away all the food and drinks prepared from home during the inspection of hand luggage.
Yes, and breakfast in this hotel, as in other hotels in Egypt, was very weak - just scrambled eggs or scrambled eggs, and even some trifle that cannot be included in the category of "essential". So for those who live by the principle: “Eat breakfast yourself, and share lunch with a friend, ” it will be very problematic to survive with gastronomic comfort from breakfast to lunch. But I survived because I ate both scrambled eggs and scrambled eggs at breakfast (I advise you too - no problem: take at least four servings, no one will even look crookedly, just to secure everyone, from the cleaner to the chef, who has white “French” red stripe, smile and say: “Salam Aleikum! ” And as many times to the same Arab as many times you meet him - they love it, checked for my seven trips to Egypt! )
And this dinner somehow reminded me of those unforgettable pre-crisis dinners, about ten years ago, when it was completely different: both in terms of the variety of dishes and the deliciousness of their preparation. Actually, everything remains the same, only now even many five-star hotels in Egypt in all respects, and not only in terms of food, “do not reach” those former three-, four-star hotels. And this striking contrast is perceived especially by me, who, for objective reasons, had a ten-year gap between the last vacation on the Red Sea and the current one.
Here, despite the crisis, in a four-star hotel on the very first day I was pleased with lunch: three types of meat - beef, grilled sausages, chicken; two types of fish: fried and cooked in dough in boiling vegetable oil, many salads, cucumbers (very tasty, like from the garden), tomatoes, olives, and so on. And drizzle everything with olive oil or other seasonings. Soups are like soups.
Nothing unusual: usually vegetable and mushroom. I just always wanted real Ukrainian borsch with bacon with donuts with garlic and a large piece of pork for lunch ...But, given Muslim customs and realizing that you are visiting them, the maximum that I could afford, in violation of the Koran, is to drink half a glass before dinner strong at 45? anise vodka "OUZO", perhaps the only strong drink worthy of respect that cannot be diluted - it becomes cloudy!
I will not talk about sweet dishes and desserts. Everyone knows very well. And these dishes are equally famous for both two- and five-star hotels in Egypt. And, it's always fresh. Only one surprises: how do chefs manage to cook so many delicious sweets in one short Egyptian night?
The drinks
The best drinks can be determined late in the evening, and preferably after 24-00 (surprisingly, the lobby bar is open around the clock! ), asking what is no longer there.
As usual, by this time they are already drinking the best: beer, OUZO and red wine. From strong alcoholic drinks, you can still drink Tequila, Rum and Whiskey, and it is better to absorb them in various cocktails. I have not tried others. All I want to do is a tasting of all 5-7 drinks, putting them in a row in front of me and giving each one a rating. But so far, it hasn't been possible to do so. Next time I will definitely do this and describe the result ...
Tired of absorbing incredible amounts of beer, one day I decided to arrange a "Red Wine Festival" for myself. But after lunch there was a bummer: this wonderful drink of the Sun suddenly ended. I took upon myself this sin: too zealously I undertook the fulfillment of my desire.
The promised restoration of wine stocks in the lobby bar at 17-00 no longer mattered to me: I returned to the old beer course with a gradual increase in the strength of drinks, up to forty-five degrees OUZO (aka Sambuk, aka Rakia) .
All drinks are dispensed according to the norm - two glasses per hand. But you can approach, especially in the lobby bar, at least ten times.
Yes, one more thing: the most “powerful” in terms of assortment and volume is the round-the-clock lobby bar. The bar of the restaurant, which is open during lunch and dinner, also has everything, but a limited amount - a lot ends quickly. But this is not a problem: below it on the ground floor there is a lobby bar - you can wind it up on the elevator so as not to spill drinks on the stairs. There are three more bars - on the island, but without alcohol and without beer - this is so that drunken men do not fall into the sea and drown, as well as on the beach and in the pool.
Read more about their impressions below.
After the animation, as an option, a lobby bar, at least until the morning - without the fear that when you check out on the last day of your resort, they will put up a "tidy sum" for the drinks you consumed after 24-00. bar around the clock!
Disco
At half past twelve at night, here in one of the rooms in the hotel lobby, a disco hall is arranged. The hall is huge, as for a hotel, and tastefully decorated, no worse than in a five-star hotel where I have previously been. Even in some positions I liked it more.
The disco is great. Too bad there aren't many people. On my first visit, only two tipsy girls danced, periodically going out to the lobby bar for a new portion of cocktails, and three Arabs recklessly doing a dance “pa” around the girls. Apparently, in this way they tried to seduce them. In subsequent evenings there were up to ten or more people dancing ...
At the resort, you can not sleep until morning.
Anyway, with the sunrise there will be a beach, soft mattresses on sun loungers, fresh beach towels and sleep, with short breaks for swimming in the sea, for breakfast and lunch ...
The territory of the hotel. Nature
The first day of the seven days of rest turned out to be rich in terms of getting to know the Mirage New Hawaii hotel. In addition to the qualities already described above, the design of the hotel territory in terms of architectural and landscape design, as well as landscaping, was no less important for me. The latter is very significant for me, since I am a pagan by nature, in the sense of a zealous admirer of the god of Nature - Pan. Even in my homeland, when I moved to Kyiv two decades ago and had such an opportunity, I chose an apartment in Obolon over the Dnieper to admire the sunrise every morning and the wonderful pictures of Nature at different times of the year. Therefore, here in Hurghada, at the Mirage New Hawaii hotel, I plunged headlong into this man-made oasis in the middle of the desert.
Just enough fresh water and daily plant care and a year-round blooming paradise appears. Naturally, initially it is also necessary to place exotic southern plants in the original order, only for this and not for any other hotel, in accordance with the laws of beauty and landscape design. And the masters of their craft, it seems to me, succeeded. And so I walked around this artificially created by the genius of man park, as if in a museum of Nature. Neatly trimmed rows of shrubs created alleys and at the same time framed small lawns, where you will not see any exotic plants, giant flowers and dwarf trees. And the names are such that you will not remember.
In the first days I got acquainted with the hotel and, in fact, got to know it. And in this he found special pleasure. Such is my nature: to strive for the new and the unknown, to discover the secret and beautiful in this World. And in such cases, among the routine and everyday life, there is a surge - what? – it’s hard to explain, maybe emotional, spiritual…
So it was on a microscale, with reference to any individual elements of landscape gardening compositions and elements. But, breaking away from particulars and looking (conditionally) from a bird's eye view, as far as my imagination allowed me, I saw a certain similarity in this hotel, as well as in other hotels of the first beach line of Hurghada that I have been to. And common to all hotels is the structure of their layout.
These are: the main building almost the entire width of the area allocated by the architect (usually 150-200m) with a huge lobby in the center, elegantly decorated with a mirrored marble floor (how could it be otherwise, the lobby is the face of the hotel, just like the face of a woman ... ) ; in the lobby - the porter service (reception) - the first thing that every vacationer encounters. And just at the reception, the chic ostentatious view of the hotel through its lobby, sometimes for some newly arrived guests, fades, if not completely extinguished. And all because in such a standard architectural layout of residential buildings of the hotel there are some features. And they are next.
In order to accommodate vacationers as much as possible on an area of two and a half hectares allocated to a hotel in the center of Hurghada (and here the land is expensive, especially by the sea), the best structure, like a U-shaped from two to five-story residential buildings (the number of floors is directly proportional to the star rating of the hotel), departing from the main building to the sea itself, you can’t imagine. And this U-shaped structure of the layout of residential buildings immediately caught my eye and disappointed me a little, after a recent visit to Royal Grand Sharm in Sharm El Sheikh on the square, if I'm not mistaken, ten times more and so many times more you can play architectural and landscape fantasy of the designer.
And what will happen to you next - the roots and the logical explanation - in your hometown - in the process of choosing a tour: naturally, you choose cheaper from those offered, sometimes one and a half to two times. Well, who will refuse such a "freebie"?
But this is not a “freebie” at all, but a discount on the uncomfortable location of the room. In the U-shaped structure of the residential buildings of the hotel, there are comfortable rooms with an inside view, and there are the same number of rooms with a view of the outside. It’s good if it’s a street view in the main building, like in the Sand Beach Hotel - a bit noisy from the busy main street of Hurghada, but still better than a view of a wasteland with a swamp and mosquitoes, like from the back of the El Samaka hotel buildings beach. So, when you check in, you, of course, are settled in a room “according to the tickets purchased”, but in the cheapest one in terms of the view from the window (the quality of repairs and furniture is now out of the question - this is a special topic). So it was with one of the vacationers from the Donbass, who drove with me to the hotel "Mirage New Hawaii": I did not have time to get the keys to the room at the reception (reception), as he came running and demanded another room with claims: "What I owe seven days to look at the bare wall of a nearby hotel?
” They explained him correctly: “What you paid for, you got it, and the view of the sea is more expensive! » That's right. You have to pay for everything! Moreover, giving $5-10 in black cash to the porter (reception) is still cheaper than overpaying $50-100 for a comfortable room with a sea view when buying a tour. Black cash is not taxed. So do not be indignant and use this loophole to reduce the cost of your comfortable stay while there is such an opportunity. Because they can cover it. Especially after such analytics as in this article of mine.
In the main building, in addition to the lobby and the porter service (reception), usually located: the main restaurant, lobby bar, billiard room, gym, disco and everything else that should be, according to the stars of the hotel.
And before going out into the courtyard there is almost always a terrace, below there is a stage for animation and concerts, and then a series of pools of various depths and a garden with exotic plants, which I wrote about earlier.
In three-star hotels, sometimes, as in El Samaka Beach, instead of swimming pools, bungalows are installed, which increases the number of rooms for holidaymakers.
Sea. Beach
About the sea, in connection with the peculiarities of the architectural structure of the hotel, it is possible in more detail. As if a continuation of the buildings, far into the sea, for 100 meters or more, there are bulk piers with sunbeds and umbrellas with dried and woven palm leaves. The length of these bulk piers depends on the distance from the shore of the sea strip, where a decent depth begins with the opportunity for vacationers to snorkel and see the delights of the Red Sea from the inside. There is no such pleasure at the Mirage New Hawaii hotel, since the bulk pier continues with a pier on stilts, to which a dozen pleasure boats of medium displacement moor. Naturally, diving from such a pier and swimming under these ships is prohibited.
But the area of the sea to these ships is well equipped: there are two huge islands with everything you need to relax, including a bar.
I want to disappoint fans of underwater excursions with a mask: there are very few fish and other marine life. One day, I specially swam from the beach for the entire length of this lagoon and met only two not colored, but some kind of transparent fish ...And only at the farthest edge of the lagoon, under a wooden canopy, I saw flocks of medium-sized fish, including multi-colored . The scarcity of marine life at the resorts in Hurghada, in my opinion, is explained by the fact that in pursuit of a comfortable and shallow beach, sand brought from the desert is filled with corals, most of which are already dead from the insane ecological “activity” of the same person. It is possible that household, construction waste and sewerage are dumped into the sea.
At least in Hurghada, I have never seen a single sewage truck or garbage truck. And this is with at least hundreds of thousands of vacationers in Hurghada.
However, the beach at Mirage New Hawaii is great. Sandy, clean and well maintained. It is good to relax here with children - the depth gradually grows to a meter at a distance of 10-15 meters. There are two bars nearby (one on the island is non-alcoholic), the other has, in addition to beer, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, even a pizza kitchen, various salads and ice cream - for those who are too lazy to go to the main restaurant, or keep their graceful figure .
November 16.2016 Wednesday. Evening night
Birthdays on the Red Sea
I have the second day of rest on the Red Sea. And I always remember that the main purpose of this visit to Egypt is to experience how it celebrates its birthday on the Red Sea.
Although there are still four days before my event, but today I was lucky to participate in this event, even the anniversary, of my friend Rai from Boryspil.
In the morning, nothing foreshadowed this unique event. But just before dinner, approaching the beach bar to quench his thirst with a beer, he noticed two pretty ladies at the bar who were discussing something vividly. My appearance aroused their interest in me, as in their countryman, and immediately a bottle of liter Ukrainian vodka Khlebny Dar appeared from somewhere, and I was asked to drink to the health of the birthday girl, who turned out to be one of these pretty ladies. Naturally, I did not refuse ...I did not refuse the second and third cups either ...
I want to notice how easily people converge and get acquainted in a relaxed atmosphere on vacation at the resort.
You can easily say hello to any woman of any age and ask how you are relaxing - and this will already be a reason to get to know each other, especially since there are plenty of interesting topics for communication: from impressions of the Red Sea to problems with settling in a hotel or the quality and variety of food in a restaurant. Along the way, to revive the conversation, you can insert a couple of anecdotes or aphorisms - they themselves suddenly pop up when necessary.
At the same time, you remember how closed, self-centered people are in big cities, for example, in Moscow, St. Petersburg or Kyiv. In Moscow - especially, but Kyiv is psychologically still a more open city and more conducive to communication. I am talking about this not unfounded, since I have lived in each of these cities for more than one year (in Kyiv - a quarter of a century, in Moscow - three years, in St. Petersburg - a little less).
) for several months in a row on the basis of DOL "Cascade".
And that's why I never had problems with acquaintances and friends at the resort. And the current acquaintance, especially with the birthday girl, was supposed to continue at a gala dinner in the restaurant where I was invited. I want to note that holidays such as anniversaries, birthdays and other significant dates in the resort are celebrated by vacationers almost every day. This is understandable. Because everyone's birthday is "only once a year. " And everyone strives to spend it in such a way that there is something to remember not only until the next birthday, but for life. “But I celebrated my birthday on the Red Sea, ” such a statement already arouses admiration and envy of your friends! For this it is worth a little fuss! Is not it? And therefore, if such opportunities are found, then there will be no stop behind the desire to spend your birthday on the Red Sea.
I wanted to attend a birthday as a guest in order to know in advance what awaits me as the first person at this event in a few days. And avoid small punctures and large breaks. In fact, this is what happened. The cake and the festive table were expected to be set at 20-00, but no one knew about it. And the birthday (aka Anniversary) of my friend had, with resentment and tears, moved to the terrace. Therefore, I advise you in advance, it is better to go to the reception service in the morning and receive a beautifully printed congratulation indicating for the restaurant what time (printed 20-00) and how many invited guests the festive event is designed for. I corrected the time for 18-00 (that is, half an hour before dinner) and put down 12 people with a margin. Why celebrate at the beginning of dinner? - Yes, because no one will be hungry to wait two hours and everyone will go to dinner.
And later the holiday will no longer be so desirable and cheerful, and drinking on a full stomach is somehow out of place. Moreover, in an hour and a half of dinner, vacationers drink almost all the stocks of the best drinks (OUZO, red wine and beer) in the restaurant bar, and every time running to the lobby bar for a portion of alcohol is somehow out of hand.
Rai's birthday was great with songs and lots of fun. And it ended well after midnight (I don’t remember, it is possible that in the morning, but before dawn, as they planned to meet the Sun, no one could stand it). Thanks to the efforts of the hotel administration, there were magnificent congratulations and a particularly delicious cake. Animators, dressed in theatrical costumes and invited to perform on the stage from outside, staged a concert with congratulatory songs.
Speaking of songs: thanks to the well-staged and loud voice of the hero of the day, songs, primarily Ukrainian folk, sounded all evening and after midnight we were asked several times to sing quieter ...
That night, I made sure that the lobby bar at the Mirage New Hawaii hotel is open around the clock. As for me, it was a pleasant discovery. For everyone else, no less, as it allowed an unlimited number of times for us, four men with bracelets "all-inclusive", with a frequency of 10-15 minutes to visit a nearby lobby bar to supply a cheerful company with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. There was no stop for toasts, including "alaverdi" ...And the name of alcoholic drinks no longer matters had: they drank, as they say, everything that is on “Sha” - everything, “sho” will be served ...
Shorts are allowed in the main restaurant for breakfast, lunch and dinner, although there is a written warning that shorts are not allowed for dinner. But no one expressed claims to violators during my entire vacation. Yes, I myself often went to the restaurant in the evening in shorts. But in the Chinese restaurant, he decided to dress more seriously: after all, a special restaurant, exclusive, and by appointment.
Both restaurants: both Chinese and Italian are located on the second floor of the main building next to the main Mediterranean restaurant. External design and design is really under China. In this regard, everything is as it should be: paintings, panels and everything else. Even music with Chinese motives. But, as I expected, neither the geisha, nor the Chinese waiter, and the original Chinese dishes, I did not try here. True, the waiter is an Arab, but whether in jest, or did not understand my question, but when I saw a piece of floating meat in vegetable soup, I asked: “Turtle soup?
", He unperturbedly replied: " From the turtle! » Encouraged by my own self-deception, I enjoyed this soup to the very bottom. But such self-deception did not work out with the second dish: this dish was painfully like an ordinary chicken grown on growth stimulants - bioadditives and did not look like sushi either in appearance or in taste. And another bummer: my favorite drink “OUZO” and beer were no longer available: the entire supply was drunk by the previous people who visited this restaurant an hour earlier (the record, it turns out, was at 19-00 and 20-00). Therefore, I advise you: if you want to try any drink in this restaurant, sign up first! In addition, you will have time to eat in the main restaurant, if after the Chinese you remain, for sure, hungry. Knowing this, according to the reviews that I read before flying to Egypt, I ate a lot in the main restaurant before the Chinese.
Of course, not to the eyeballs, but like that, I left 10 percent of the volume of the stomach for a possible surprise in a Chinese restaurant. And therefore he was cheerful, because he was full, and he was philosophical about such, to put it mildly, humor in a Chinese restaurant. And I devoured all the dishes served in this restaurant not without pleasure - and only because of respect for the hotel staff, who are trying so hard to somehow preserve the former service of the restaurant. After all, the hotel staff is not guilty that there is a crisis in the country and it is impossible to jump above yourself ...
In the end, what I wanted was for me for $ 270 (7000 UAH) and twice a plane ride to another continent, they provided a luxurious double room for one, they gave me four times to eat and drink, including alcohol, to satiety, yes also the wonders of the Red Sea? . . Yes, we, in fact, just "fat" ...And we criticize the resorts of Egypt on all sites, sometimes sucking the negatives out of our fingers!
The dawn that had begun, froze for an indefinite time. I was waiting for the sun to appear, but it still wasn't there. And so it went on for two, three, five, ten minutes...
And it seemed to me that there was some hidden action going on. The whole World is being transformed, leaving the realm of Darkness and Evil into the realm of Light and Good. I felt that it was at this moment that a struggle was taking place between these two principles of our World: a moment ago, the sovereign Night did not want to cede its power over the World to anyone. But in the end, she was forced to obey the Law established by the Almighty: Good has the same rights to this World as Evil. And therefore, the Evil of the Night must, for some time, cede its power over the World to the Good. And the fiery point of the edge of the Sun, which appeared with a delay of several minutes because of the clouds on the horizon, put a convincing end to this dispute in favor of Day and Good.
With the appearance of the Sun in the firmament, the whole World began to play and I heard the sounds of this divine music with my inner ear. It was the joy of the dawning Day!
But Man wakes up - the source of Good and Evil in our world, and everything begins to change - in different places in different ways. Here, in places of joy and happiness, which is the resort, the Good of Man prevails over his Evil. And therefore, throughout the day here, the Soul is at ease and pleasant. And in real life, in cities, in the conditions of the accumulation of a large number of people, when there are many temptations to arrange comfort for the mortal body to the detriment of the Soul, moral norms and etiquette of the mutual coexistence of people, a huge club of Evil is born, which fills all the space in this place and begins grow like an avalanche. There is a struggle between natural daytime Good and Evil, born of Man. (Especially sensitive people feel it at a subtle level, like a kind of black cloud).
And therefore, Man, as a violator of the initial balance of Good and Evil, sadly, must be destroyed ...If he continues to do Evil contrary to the Almighty, to please the Devil. This is how the inevitability of the End of the World is explained simply.
This unique process of changing the polarity of our World at dawn and the influence of man on the balance of Good and Evil, I observed back in Alushta, in the summer. But in Crimea there are no pure resorts, as there are in Egypt or Turkey - large areas filled only with vacationers and service personnel who provide this vacation. There are still many other categories of people there – local residents, for example, pensioners, the unemployed, the homeless, who, as in other places, due to the peculiarities of living conditions, are not a source of Good, but, most likely, Evil. And therefore, in such places, in contrast, there is a particularly sensitive human evil brought into our World.
Afternoon of heavenly life in Hurghada
I did not have time to look back, as already half the term of my stay on the Red Sea was over. And my whole vacation seemed to me like one bright and joyful day, followed by a winter night with snowfalls, frosts and the oppressed bad weather of my beloved friend - Nature. And today is the noon of this brief happiness of mine. And after - everything will inexorably slide towards the evening and night. And therefore, starting from today, I will not count the days spent at the resort, but how many of them are left.
From the very morning I am at the sea: before breakfast I met the dawn, and from ten in the morning I bask under the gentle rays of the Sun, caressing my body. Stretching on a sunbed with my eyes closed, catching a buzz. I thought: there is happiness in life like this, to live carelessly on everything ready, to think about the beautiful, if you want to create no less beautiful and drive away thoughts about raising housing and communal services tariffs, about a possible war, even a nuclear one ( mind you, mind me! ).
You can dine not only in the main restaurant, but also here, in the beach bar - pizza and salads, plus any drinks in any quantity. Some women who watch their waist with an aspen do just that.
Today I am on the main beach, about two hundred meters long and about twenty meters wide. The beach is sandy, like the whole bay is covered with sand from the desert. But in the water, in this artificial lagoon, there is also a lot of gravel, which has not yet been rolled by the sea into round pebbles. Here there are no waves at all, as in a closed reservoir, only sometimes the water of the tides rises and falls quietly and imperceptibly.
On the beach, shade-houses, common for Egyptian resorts, are installed in the idea of umbrellas made from dried palm leaves. There are three rows of such umbrellas, twelve in each. Therefore, up to two hundred vacationers can be accommodated on sunbeds under them. But at this time - no more than thirty people.
I couldn't believe it) I quickly rolled up my towel and leaned on the blown island on stilts. There are the same sunbeds and umbrellas, but without flies.
After lunch, the sun rolls incredibly quickly towards sunset: by four it already begins to get dark, and at five it is dark. And at this time, the performance begins with a massive attack on mosquitoes with a hand cannon roaring like two turbojet aircraft, as if two men dragged a plane into the hotel and turned on all its engines at full power! Another Arab, apparently, is insuring him so that the first one does not fall off his hooves from the vile stench - the smell is like from kerosene, and the thick gray smoke, like from a big forest fire, is higher than the roof of the five-story hotel building. I took the photo from the sea, about two hundred meters. I was afraid to come closer for my health: so as not to get stuck together with a mosquito ...
From such a gas-noise attack, mosquitoes knock away - to the leeward side, and when I was sitting on the terrace in this direction, they pounced on me with their whole mass, but not for long: apparently, having swallowed a dose of this caustic smoke and being shell-shocked from an incredible sound, they fell to me under your feet. And the people (vacationers) - nothing, very much even survived. They (people) are not accustomed to such "ecology", breathing chemistry for years, as I did when I was in Zaporozhye near the "Koksokhimzavod", where I happened to live for 25 years.
And if you run into the room in time and close it with "three bolts", then you won't even hear the smell in five minutes.
So these two men process all the hotels in a row, except for those that do not function (and, therefore, they do not pay for their unhealthy work, no one will lift a finger there either). From there, mosquitoes come with renewed vigor.
And as for the flies, the Mirage New Hawaii hotel has such nice transparent plastic fly houses with top dressing hanging on trees throughout the territory. Flies with great pleasure, as I noticed, flock to these houses, like our birdhouses, and devour the delicacy prepared by him, apparently, along with a dose of poison. And there is nothing wrong in terms of aesthetics and violation of park design in this. On the contrary, they even bring some local exoticism into landscape design. And there are no flies.
As a result: the fact that mosquitoes and flies in November on the Red Sea is an objective reality given to us in sensations during a crisis period. And you have to come to terms with this.
Late evening.
Night absorbs all daytime creatures, including humans, dragging them into a sleepy realm. And it releases, mainly, nocturnal predators ...Just not at the resort, and this is not about a Man. At the resort, human activity shifts its maximum value from daytime to nighttime.
And the question involuntarily arises: “But does not a person turn into a predator, similarly to night predators in Nature? » In ordinary life, this is often the case: all thieves and robbers go out to their trade. When it gets dark. But it is there, and here they rest ...
The resort is the opposite. During the day, especially in the summer heat, what do they do? They only eat and sleep, sunbathing on the beach. Sometimes they swim, bathe or play volleyball. Yes, they also drink beer and various non-alcoholic and low-alcohol drinks, such as cocktails. And only in the evening, the energy accumulated in them during the day is released. And if strong alcoholic drinks are added, then the excitement can last until the morning. And during the day, sleep and eat again. And so in a circle...
November 19.2016 Saturday
Two days before departure
I no longer count how many days I have left to rest on the Red Sea. I don't care! Is it possible to estimate in days the number of events that have occurred since my arrival at the Mirage New Hawaii Hotel?
You don’t even need to create precedents for these events yourself, you just need to surrender to the natural flow of time and what is already prepared for you as part of the tour or extra - for an additional fee: from animation to an endless number of excursion programs, including walks on a yacht in the red sea. By the way, the very nature of the Red Sea, even without outside interference, is fraught with an inexhaustible number of secrets, miracles and is ready to open them before you. And this will be reflected in your memory by an infinite number of events that also prolong your spiritual life to infinity. For this, you just need to open your Soul, look in such a way that you can see all this and not only with your eyes, but with your inner vision, and also hear and perceive the world with other senses. And, moreover, to learn to perceive the world with the sense organs of the Soul.
And rest at the resort allows you to do this, freeing you from the hustle and bustle of everyday problems. So take advantage of this! Perhaps in your homeland, in ordinary life, you will not lose these abilities.
Is it really possible to appreciate the days of life in the resort that inspired by this paradise life and laid down on paper with small beads of words? If it wasn't for the resort, it might never have come into being. God grant that those who will read these lines understand me. And so you don’t want to lose what has already arrived when you leave. This is always the case: what has been achieved is already considered the norm of life, from which it should continue to be better. And by the end of the resort, there is an oppressive sadness about the imminent cessation of continuous joys and carefree life and the beginning of the viscous dullness of everyday life, absorbing your whole life without a trace, if you give it complete freedom.
And I only have two days left! ...Is it a lot or a little?
And if the departure from the starting point is in the evening, and from the resort airport in the morning, then you lose two more days, and only four days out of seven remain! Of these four days, minus half a day for a hotel guide who will try to sell you a tourist package at exorbitant prices; half a day more to fend off annoying sellers, etc. Or a whole day for scandals in the service of the porter (reception) ...As a result, there will be practically nothing left for rest.
Therefore, I would advise you when choosing a tour and in the process of rest, take into account all the above points and appreciate the resort time!
November 20.2016 Sunday
Belly dance
Tonight there are two crown Egyptian dances in the animation program: "Belly Dance" and "Dance with Skirts". Undoubtedly, examples of folk Egyptian choreography are shown, the roots of which are in ancient times.
Moreover, when you watch the belly dance of this young graceful Egyptian, you yourself move into the depths of the thousand-year history of Egypt. Such is the contagious power of this dance.
And I, linking the centuries, imagined the palace of a rich Egyptian or the sheikh himself, concubines, each of whom tried to show their true beauty, charm and sexuality, compared to a hundred or a thousand other concubines and wives, primarily in a dance to please their master . After all, human physiology provides that a man loves with his eyes. And therefore, it is the Belly Dance that is the way of visual perception of female beauty and sexuality, which a man perceives so sensitively, according to his nature.
Further, if possible, to realize the true female beauty and sexuality, the chest protrudes, behind it - a graceful waist, slender legs, unusually flexible arms and ...a face, a smile on the face. By the way, the dancer's head is practically motionless with any body movements (except for the neck) ...That is why the dancer pays the most attention to the “dance of the hips” and then, in descending order, to the “dance” of all other elements of the body.
Perhaps next after the hips, in importance in this dance, as in any other dance, should be the legs. Indeed, in all dances, the legs play the main and decisive role, whether it be waltz, tango, and, moreover, Charleston and twist. And in this dance, the dancer's legs, of course, play a big role in terms of the girl's movement around the stage and performing various virtuoso dance "pas" to the beat of the music. But all the same, these movements are "obscured" by elements of the movement of the hips, chest, waist, arms and neck.
I, as a man, perceive these hands with such tenderness - hugging and so sensitively show the love of the girl to the one they hug (by the way, the amazing impression of this dance: it seems to every man that these hands are hugging him ... ), and the vibrating movements other parts of the girl's body to the beat of music (hips, chest, waist) and in general her whole body clearly speaks of her passion ...And all this, of course, excites the sexual passion of a man.
This "culture" of Belly Dance gives it the meaning of high art, conquers the hearts and souls of people of no less high level of spiritual and aesthetic development.
I am only surprised by one thing, why exactly in Egypt, Central Asia and the Middle East this art of belly dancing could originate, and not here in the European part, for example, in Ukraine, in Russia or in the West? And why exactly in these countries Belly dancing is given such a big role in sexual games
? It seems that the physiology of our men is the same, and they also perceive female beauty and sexuality with their eyes ...But the Belly Dance in the historical past did not take root with us. Although, as we saw on the belly dance of an Egyptian girl, the effect is huge ...
And all because, firstly, unlike the countries of Central Asia and the Middle East, the peculiarities of our climate do not allow walking half-naked all year round and performing the Belly Dance. And what is a belly dance under a fur coat? - Impossible to imagine!
And secondly, polygamy is not practiced and has never been practiced in our country, such as, for example, the Sultan has up to 1000 or more wives or another Asian is slightly poorer and slightly smaller wives. Feeding and dressing up such a horde is one thing, but try to please! – You can’t do without Belly Dance and special potions, and this is confirmed by historical paintings (and films) of the past.
Probably, the roots of Viagra are from there ...In our case, with a monogamous family, there was no need for all these stimulants of male "creative activity". In contrast to the belly dance, we have “invented” various erotic dances on a pole and without it ...But this is a topic for another conversation ...
Dance with skirts
This is a male dance and therefore, in many respects, it has not been completely unraveled. First of all, the combination of a man and skirts no longer fits. After all, the skirt in our usual view is traditionally women's clothing. And here a man and, moreover, a Muslim, who even according to Sharia should be higher than a woman in many respects, suddenly dresses up in women's clothes and, moreover, dances in front of everyone! Even here, in Ukraine and Russia, dressing up a man in women's clothes and admiring himself is considered a mental deviation of moderate severity.
But, to the credit of the dancer, I will say that he performs the Dance with skirts masterfully - the highest class!
His vestibular apparatus never ceases to amaze me: quickly, like a whirligig, revolve around itself dozens, if not a hundred times, and at least something - zero reaction! Of mere mortals, only an astronaut can endure this. And there are hundreds of such dance masters in Egypt. When you walk in the evening in Sharm El Sheikh along the main street, every ten to twenty meters, like an advertisement for a restaurant or other public institution - a dancing man with skirts ...And here, at the hotel - this beauty is delivered to your home. This is really an art: the dancer gives himself completely to the dance, lives by the dance. He is a dance, and there is nothing else and no one around! This is how I imagined a self-contained, self-sufficient dance with skirts. And a male dance, although there are no purely male attributes in this dance, such as swords (dance with swords). And there are no sexual motives, as in the Belly Dance of a young Arab woman.
So what is the meaning behind this dance?
I went through various explanations for a long time and painfully, and finally, like lightning, such an option arose.
The deep meaning of the Dance with skirts is hidden in the skirt itself, when it opens up in the form of a disc during the rotation of the dancer! Disk, circle is a symbol of our World! Our Earth is round, and the visible part of it is presented to each of us in the form of a disk, in the center of which he himself is located. How is this not an analogy with a dancer in the center of developing skirts? This is very symbolic: a person stands in the center of the World and rotates it as he wants. That is, the meaning of the dance is the dominion of a man over the World! The man is in charge of everything! And it fits into the norms and rules of Shariah. This is an axiom and no "gender" that is gaining strength in the West will be able to shake it in the next hundred years. And therefore it is not surprising that this dance originated and found its development in Egypt with such centuries-old traditions.
November 20.2016 Sunday
The penultimate day of a creative business trip
The penultimate day of my creative trip to the Red Sea. Why did I suddenly decide to call my resort vacation in Egypt a creative business trip? - Yes, all because I almost fulfilled my creative plan: I covered ten of the fourteen sheets of paper I took with me in small handwriting. Exactly two days left of my stay on the Red Sea. “A little bit of good” is something that I am not used to and do not consider for myself the norm of life - a resort on the Cross Sea. But I understand that for me the Red Sea is one of the stages (after the Black Sea in Crimea) of the knowledge of beauty. And there are so many more wonderful things in the world than the Red Sea. Apparently, only Egypt was able to slightly open up to us, millions of people of the middle class, to join one of the wonders of the world - the Red Sea.
After five days of my current stay at the resort in Hurghada and with fresh memory of the rest in Sharm El Sheikh, I can say about the difference between the Red Sea here and there.
These are different seas, although these two resorts are separated from each other by a small strait some hundred kilometers wide Between Africa and Asia Minor. And the point here is not at all in this water barrier, but in the fact that Hurghada is located on the mainland and here, as elsewhere in the world, civilization is slowly but surely destroying Nature, though not completely yet. And this is the glory of God! Greedy man comes into conflict with Nature: in order to improve his well-being exorbitantly, he robs Nature more than she can give him. As a result, Nature is depleted and in the end it may disappear altogether, and in the future, man himself will disappear as a part of Nature ...But this is in the future, perhaps in more than one hundred years.
And in such bays-lagoons there are practically no waves, since there are three hundred meters to the open sea, and all waves are extinguished even at the entrance to these lagoons by bulk piers, which simultaneously act as breakwaters. Only ebbs and flows fluctuate the sea level in a difference of several tens of centimeters.
To make good use of the bay area between these artificial piers, this hotel has built two large islands of wooden beams on stilts. On these islands of rest, as well as on the shore and on bulk piers, there are wooden deck chairs with mattresses, and above them there are sunshades in the form of umbrellas made of dried palm leaves. From each island there is a metal ladder so that it is convenient to go into the sea for swimming.
All this is nice and good. Except for one thing: the nature of the wonderful Red Sea has disappeared! Man adjusted Nature for himself, for his pleasure, without asking Nature, but is it pleasant for her?
This year, this is my third hotel in Hurghada, where I rested. But, none of them is so full of exotic fish, moray eels, turtles, stingrays and octopuses near the shore, as in Sharm El Sheikh. Today I swam with a mask from the beach itself to the last island (it's about two hundred meters) and met only one small fish of a translucent color. And only under the last pontoon - flocks of fish, sometimes colored. And in order to see the real Red Sea with its exotic inhabitants and capture all this miracle in the photo, you need to take an excursion to the reef. Pleasure boats, and there are more than ten of them, are waiting for you right there on the pier!
Cloudy morning and evening
Today, for the first time in six days of rest, the sky was covered with such solid and impenetrable clouds that it was impossible for the Sun to break through them before lunch. And this happens in Egypt in November. We usually start to rain in such situations. But here it passed: after all, Africa!
I was surprised by the girls who again drove into the hotel, asking me with horror: “Are there such clouds here every day? "But I, having shown them my tanned, almost chocolate-colored body, - in just five days, I calmed them down, and they peacefully went to breakfast ...
The sun still appeared for a couple of hours at lunchtime, melting these uninvited guests - the clouds - with its heat. And therefore, Nature was not so harmful for vacationers as it was in the morning: it gave everyone who wished plenty to take their souls and pamper their bodies under the rays of the gentle southern sun, gracious and moderately hot. After all, it cannot be compared with the deadly burning, which it happens in July and, especially, in the month of August. I don’t say this unfounded, but as a person who experienced such a “good” in excessive quantities just three months ago, and based on fresh impressions, I can compare these two pictures ...
But this joy for beachgoers was only 2-3 hours.
This is the last day of my stay at the Red Sea. I will not hide, incredible sadness: I imagine the autumn cold and slush - there, far away in Kyiv. And I compare with grace here in Egypt on the Red Sea. The only thing that brightened up today for me was my birthday and the upcoming evening celebration, which the hotel administration should arrange for me during dinner ...
Many wish to celebrate their birthday in Egypt, on the Red Sea or in some other exotic resort in the world. And some succeed. (I did it this year too).
How the hotel reacts to such a significant date of its clients-holidays, I saw from the outside during a holiday in many resorts, and even was a participant in such a celebration five days ago. And today I had to experience this happiness for myself ...
And the reality exceeded all my expectations.
So, by six o'clock in the evening, by the time the main restaurant opened for dinner, the waiters of the restaurant prepared a festive table, according to the preliminary order, for 12 people. Three tables connected together and covered with a white tablecloth, with a bouquet of flowers in a vase in the middle and neatly arranged cutlery with champagne glasses - all this created an unusual festive atmosphere, even here on the Red Sea at the Mirage New Hawaii hotel, where every day is - holiday. And this special holiday was prepared for us by the chefs and waiters of the restaurant. For this I am very grateful to them and one only has to wonder how they could find time to prepare the festive table for us so carefully and tastefully. After all, I understand how densely they are loaded from early morning until late at night in order to tasty feed and serve more than one hundred vacationers at a high level, among which there are many unnecessarily fastidious ...
After the friends invited for the birthday from all over Ukraine, as well as from Belarus, took everything they wanted from the buffet (and for dinner in this hotel there is always the opportunity to realize almost all your desires), and champagne was poured ( prepared in advance), restaurant employees appeared in the restaurant hall with a birthday cake and, approaching the table, sang a happy birthday greeting in a harmonious chorus: “Happy byes day…”
After that, they invited the birthday boy and all the guests to a dance, which we all danced together to the applause of the audience - all, at that time, those who were vacationing in the restaurant.
Thanking the owners of the restaurant, we began the usual festive feast with toasts, jokes, impressions of the rest, etc. Fortunately, since everyone was on the “All inclusive” system, there were no problems, neither with a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, nor all sorts of dishes to eat after another toast ...
And after an hour and a half, eating a cake skillfully prepared specially for this occasion, everyone thought: “Yes, almost like at home and comfort ... ” The holiday was a success!
November 26.2016 Saturday
Human Feelings and Perspective
After Egypt and acclimatization (not only in terms of the weather, but also in a creative attitude) to new, long-forgotten old conditions, I continue my usual life. And the priority is creativity. (Well, where can I get away from him, like from my own child? ) Five days have already passed after Egypt, but I still continue to live by the Red Sea thanks to the inertia of the Soul. I'm not talking about the body. This material reality, an hour after landing in Kyiv, was already ready to enter the Penates of Winter, with its frosts, blizzards and snowfalls. After all, the Soul is not a body and weathervane is not inherent in it! The soul is from another world and it has completely different feelings.
And the physical feelings of the mortal body, of which there are five, are the lot of an obsolete person with a small letter, leaving the high road along which the development of a spiritual person with a capital letter moves!
I thought long and hard about what to call this New Man. I went over its former characteristics (“brow” - forehead, head, brain, think, think) and new ones - insider, creator, Soul, insight). And he recognized as the best option to combine the old basis "age", which means "life" with its new characteristic - "enlightenment" and the name he got was "Ozarwek" - Man of the Future.
And that is why it is time for me to exclaim in despair: “People, in the darkness of hopelessness your path leads you to the abyss! See clearly! Change the direction of your path! »
In abbreviation. Full text: "Holidays in Egypt"
https://www. facebook. com/sashasim. Egypt/
And in the book: Sasha Sim. Red Sea: Corner of the earthly Paradise. Travel notes from Egypt. - Kyiv: SIM & HAM Publishing House, - 2017. - 535 p. , illus. ISBN 966-8802-17-9
© Sasha Sim (Alexander Golovko), 2017
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
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