It's Raining!

This is the 3rd time we've any rain to speak of at the house, we even had thunder. And while it was just two thunderclaps this is only the second time we've had thunder in the last six months. The picture is the view of our garden from the computer room.

We're Back

6 months, 2 weeks and 5 days later we have ADSL again. Bout damn time.

Update: Keep scrolling down as we're back dating some entries from before we got ADSL.

Spring Has Sprung

The mango trees are starting to bloom and today Doortje found and rescued this baby chameleon from first the dogs who thought it would be good fun to play with it, then the gardener who needed the trowel she left so we had a general idea where in the garden it was last, and seeing the chameleon he scooped it up and was about to fling it over the wall when Door stopped him, and of course me who almost stepped on it. Then after all that drama a hawk dove out of the sky and snagged it for lunch, Door couldn't believe it.

Guest House

Doortjes sister is coming to visit next week so we set up the guest house today. We spare no expense, that's a 4 person tent!

Desert Driving Course

Doortje and I did a desert driving course together, it was good fun and we both learned quite a lot. One part of the course was going up this dune and learning to come back down safely, which was the undercurrent of the whole course. So what we did was get a good running start and plow into the dune and see how far we could climb before gravity and inertia over took. In the picture on the left I'm in the Land Cruiser to the right, I think I made it the furthers up the dune but Door said someone climbed high later in the day. But the tricky bit is coming back down, safely of course. And if the dune doesn't look very steep in the left picture have a look at the one on the right, Doortje snapped that one before we started back down.

While we were practising getting down the dunes this bunch of Americans out for a weekend camping trip stopped to say hello. That's Turbo with me and the dogs, a friend of Peter Gaballa (below) who is our instructor and guide on my other (and next) desert trip.

INA

Not something we expected to see in down town Cairo. INA is the Croatian national petrol company.