General Chit Chat

[nubianqueen]

hi georgina how are you and asalamalekum to you.

can you tell me cos you have been very helpful is there some sort of a-z book for hurghada or general guide for getting about hurg e.g. directions to, whether going by taxi, bus or whatwever i am looking to be more independent when i am there, i know queenie uses the local buses and this is something i also would like to do. i am learning egyptian arabic which inshalla will help but that is a long-term thing, i realised when you talked about the shops,el gouna and the marina that i had picked up from what you said were that all might be and you confirmed that it was so. just a thoughts!

shokran

nubianqueen

[realestatemart]

Originally Posted by nubianqueen

hi georgina how are you and asalamalekum to you.

can you tell me cos you have been very helpful is there some sort of a-z book for hurghada or general guide for getting about hurg e.g. directions to, whether going by taxi, bus or whatwever i am looking to be more independent when i am there, i know queenie uses the local buses and this is something i also would like to do. i am learning egyptian arabic which inshalla will help but that is a long-term thing, i realised when you talked about the shops,el gouna and the marina that i had picked up from what you said were that all might be and you confirmed that it was so. just a thoughts!

shokran

nubianqueen

Dear Nubian Queen
As the Owner of A - Z Red Sea Guide so Happy that you mentioned it as a guide help you during you stay in the city of Hurghada and El Gouna a word which equals alot to me , If you tell me where you will be staying I could leave you a copy of My Guide and a very helpful map of Hurghada in the hotel reception under your name

[Georgina]

Originally Posted by nubianqueen

hi georgina how are you and asalamalekum to you.

can you tell me cos you have been very helpful is there some sort of a-z book for hurghada or general guide for getting about hurg e.g. directions to, whether going by taxi, bus or whatwever i am looking to be more independent when i am there, i know queenie uses the local buses and this is something i also would like to do. i am learning egyptian arabic which inshalla will help but that is a long-term thing, i realised when you talked about the shops,el gouna and the marina that i had picked up from what you said were that all might be and you confirmed that it was so. just a thoughts!

shokran

nubianqueen

Hi Nubian Queen
There are LE1 white mini buses operating all over Hurghada so basically you hop on and off these to get where you want to go. Make sure there are other Egyptians already in the bus because some operate privately like taxis and you hire the whole bus. Hurghada is so big now with three main areas. The orange ad blue metered taxis are cheap as long as they use the meter. To get anywhere inbetween Hurghada and El Gouna you can use the El Gouna bus which departs from Downtown Hurghada the otherside of the roundabout where you have the vegetable market and big grey Government store. There is a circular red Vodafone building near the stop. Buses run every 20 minutes and you can get off wherever you want. It is LE5 HRG to EG or LE2.5 for people living here. I'm not an expert on Hurghada as I only go there twice a month or so. It will keep you busy for a long time exploring all the areas

[bluehorizonegypt]

hi everybody, im back thought youd got rid eh!

i need a big favour off anybody and everybody coming to egypt at any time. let me explain.

for the last 3 years myself, my family and my friends (spiritualist church in england) have been building a clinic in a small village in luxor to help aid all the poor and sick people ( for the last 10 years my friends and their congregration have been supporting lots of families in the village and now they have progressed to helping them medically aswell.. well its now complete and opened its doors on sunday to a resounding success. I DONT WANT YOUR MONEY but i do want to ask you to help by bringing a few old childrens clothes each time you come over to egypt . all clothes donations can be picked up from whereever you are staying or dropped at my blue horizon office in el-kawser. please help me to help give something back to egypt the clothes you give will be sold for 3le each to raise money to pay for the doctor of physio and a nurse. let me tell you about one family in particular that they have been helping. they were a family of 7(mam, dad and 5 kids) 2 of the girls have cerebal parsy(FORGIVE THE SPELOING) the father then died of pneumonia leaving them alone without apension as he was a farmer. that left the oldest son of 23 to look after the whole family he then developed a tumor behind the eyes and because its inoperable he is now blind so now the mother now bears the weight of the farming and the family. my friends help carry this burden by buying her food and giving her money for the girls for medicines.

please forgive me for posting such a sombre post but we need your help and a few extra clothes in your case will go along way.

anybody wanting to visit the clinic on a trip to luxor is most welcome. and my friends in the church can be contacted direct for more info.

[nubianqueen]

asalamelekum blue horizon shokran for your message and very interesting, i also go to luxor quite often and try to help a family in a village too, we have so much and they have so little. i will certainly contact you when i come, if you would like my private email address please send me a private message. Unfortunately i will be coming with lots of things for my new apartment and also the family that i know, so there will not be so much i would like to bring for your project, but inshalla in the future. I would really like to come to your project, i am trying to learn arabic because i am a therapist and would love to work with egyptians, one day inshalla. could you please tell me what ages of childrens clothes you want, what do you take up to, is it teenagers too?

please contact my email address so i can know where you are in luxor, i come in january/february and will come visit.


nubianqueen

[bluehorizonegypt]

thanks georgina

that would be great, you are most welcome anytime i will be luxor at the end of feb(i think) kids half term. i can work out how to send a pm so can you send me one and ill send you the details. also i will teach you arabic or what you need to know for working in an aiada

[nubianqueen]

hi this is nubianqueen

i see you have addressed your mail to georgina not sure if georgina has also responded to your mail, but shokran for your message. i will certainly i think now wait until the end of feb i was thinking of the end of january but however it suits me much better to come in february and i really look forward to your private mail, perhaps we can tell each other more about each other!

shokran for your kindness about arabic i am just about to put a disc in my computer to reinforce the few words i am learning, including the alphabet!! and there you go your kind offer. if you have a difficulty sending me a private message i know queenie would kindly tell you how, me i am useless with anything to do with computers, in fact this is the first forum i have been on in my life, so all very interesting.

salem

nubianqueen

[bluehorizonegypt]

my apologises i dont know where i got georgina from. been outin the sun too long i think, i will have another look at how to send a message but if i fail will ask for help.

take care

[realestatemart]

Originally Posted by bluehorizonegypt

my apologises i dont know where i got georgina from. been outin the sun too long i think, i will have another look at how to send a message but if i fail will ask for help.

take care

when meet tomnorrow in your office i can tell you

Regards

[nubianqueen]

asalamalekum george

are you the person who sent me details about the red sea A-Z if you are shokran and i will get in touch with you at some point, i think i might have said that i have bought an apartment in hurghada so when i come next inshalla i hope i will be staying in the apartment, if you are based in hurghada i will contact you before i come and perhaps you could drop it in to the hurghada village complex for me if that is possible, speak to you next year inshalla about it. shokran

nubianqueen