Travel writing

Many people don’t  like plane journeys, but in my opinion they are great! On October 22^nd 2011 my hole family; me, my sister, my two brothers, my mum and my dad went to Taba, Egypt. It wasn’t the first time we had been to Egypt, a few years before we went to sham el shake, that holiday was enjoyable and we did want to go back to Egypt again, but we decided we wanted to go somewhere a bit more relaxed so Taba was the place we chose.

Taba was just beautiful, from the plane journey there to the plane journey back, not even mentioning the most terrific views; there was flying over the alps to flying over the huge mountains, wide rivers and desserts.

We stayed in the Hilton hotel for a week, everything was great, there was a nice view of the beach from our room and the staff were probably the most funny and friendliest people I have ever met, you could tell that they worked very hard! The only down sides that we all thought was that the whole of Egypt gets invaded with Russians, this is not the hotels problem though. Russians are just very greedy with the food and the sun beds and not very friendly at all, at some points it became very comical! Even the staff said about them, the told us thought that they loved the English as they are very kind, they all really liked our family and always said hello to us, they even gave us free rides on the banana boat, (that was so fun!)

Most of the week we stayed there, we where down on the beach, making most of the glorious sun. I loved going in the sea, it was absolutely amazing, there were tropical fish everywhere! It was nice to go in the sea to cool down from all of the sun bathing we did. At lunch times we went to a really good place to eat, all the English people went there as it was nice English food like pizza and chips with also a great view as it was right on the beach.

At night times, we went to a range of different restraints around the hotel, it was great because we were all inclusive so we could have anything without paying. Sometimes we went to a cocktail bar which also had non alcoholic ones, we sat out side as it was over the sea on a little pier with amazing views, you were able to see all the different borders lit up for different country’s like Israel and Saudi Arabia, it was a view in a life time!

The way to the air port in Taba was quite funny but scary, we had our passports checked about five times to the airport and another five at the airport, there was loads of security on they way there but hardly any actually in the air port, they even let us bring drinks through customs! It was a very small air port, only one flight at a time went. There was I think about one shop in the airport, so I tell you, you wouldn’t want to be delayed!

Taba was one of the best holidays I have had, it was quite sad to leave but I think a week is probably enough and I would differently recommend it to anybody.

By Libby Couch