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Well, I've been back in the UK for about 36 hours and I'm so desperate to leave again I would walk to Australia. I had a fairly fraught journey back from Egypt, starting with almost not being able to leave (which would have been fine by me!)...I didn't get a visa when I arrived, as you only need one if you're leaving the Sinai region, which I wasn't going to do (plus they cost $15!), so I just got a nice little stamp in my passport. Which, it turns out, was only valid for 2 weeks, meaning I had stayed in the country illegaly for a week. After many frantic chats with various superiors in Arabic, which can sound pretty scary they eventually just shrugged and let me through. Lot of bloody fuss about nothing. So I got to the gate (after having my penknife confiscated at security - I'm surprised I didn't get myself arrested to be honest!), found a comfy seat and fell asleep. I woke up half an hour later, checked the board, and saw that my flight had departed. Without me on it. After a minor heart attack I noticed that a huge queue of people looking a lot like the people I'd checked in with were still in the airport. Eventually we discovered that the President's wife had been through the airport so everything had shut down, delaying our flight by about an hour...Finally got home after a surprisingly uneventful flight, although I did have to sit through the truely awful Die Hard 4.0.
And now it's panic stations trying to get everything done before we head off to Australia. I can't find a bloody thing, and I've spent a nightmare of a morning trying to organise all the paperwork for my Divemaster application, which I now can't send off because between Egypt and home I've lost my sodding medical form and have to get another one signed in Oz. We're being picked up at 5 and I haven't even begun to pack. In fact the only things I've acheived since getting back, apart from losing all my important paperwork, is my laundry and getting drunk with Rachel. And it's unbelieveably cold here. I'm ready to get back to the sunshine and back in the sea...Next time I write I'll be in Australia, so hopefully will be slightly more cheerful and a hell of a lot warmer!
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