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Originally Posted by Jeff-h

Hi Peter, and thanks for the welcome. I have just posted a message on the Introduction thread giving a brief outline of us. We chose Sharm in Egypt for several reasons, Tracey, my partner, has always had a fascination with Egypt from quite an early age and managed with a group of friends to spend her ?? birthday on a Nile cruise and absolutely loved Egypt, so much so that the following year she did a charity cycle ride of almost 500 Km alongside the Nile from Cairo to Aswan then on to Luxor. We then decided to learn to scuba dive in England and when we qualified decided to go somewhere that was highly rated for its diving. We liked it so much that after a very short but serious discussion period decided to give it a try out there, and also of course it gets us out of the rat race that is the UK now. As to taking things with us, basically just the clothes we stand up in and of course our dive kit, The hassle of packing everything and arranging shipping then dealing with Egyptian Customs Officials is just a bit daunting. Also I believe their import duty is very high. Apparently if you import books ( and I have a rather large collection ) an Egyptian Official has to read them all from cover to cover to ensure nothing untoward is brought into the country, I say apparently because there seems to be a lot of contradictory information out there about what non-Egyptians can and cant do.

Jeff.

congratulation Jeff on your purchase and welcome on board in our online family
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