Finally I did it—I’m on vacation! Normally I don’t have the strong feeling that I need vacation, because I never need a long downtime to recharge my batteries and I also don’t like to travel alone. In other words, I still have 25 days vacation left, which are five working weeks in Germany. My master plan is to take three weeks of my vacation in November and the other two weeks in December between Christmas and New Year.
In November I will stay one week in Albstadt, the town where I was born and raised, to visit my family and friends, read books and watch some movies I haven’t seen yet. Despite this, I have to put winter tires on my car before we get snow, which is on my personal hate list on number one. The other two weeks I will go with a good fellow to Dahab for scuba diving. I love scuba diving because it gives you the weightless possibility to see the world through other eyes. Some of my friends would say that they love scuba diving because it’s the only way to stop me talking. Sometimes, when I get excited, I talk to way too much. People then tend to compare me with a streaming processo, but I think I should stop talking about my bad attributes. ;-)
Dahab is a small town on the southeast cost of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt and was Bedouin fishing village, located approximately 100 km northeast of Sharm el-Sheikh. We already was in January in Hurghada for scuba diving, but we didn’t had the chance to do night diving or to attend a Nitrox course.
For all non-divers among yourself: Nitrox is a gas mixture composed of nitrogen and oxygen. Normally this includes normal air which is approximately 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, with around 1% inert gases, primarily argon. The most common use of nitrox mixtures containing higher than normal levels of oxygen where the reduced percentage of nitrogen is advantageous in reducing nitrogen take up in the body’s tissues and so extending the possible dive time and reducing the risk of decompression sickness.
You can find my favorite diving pictures of our last vacation in the following. I’ve modified them with a graphical editor to remove the blue coloration which you normally have under water—especially if you don’t do a white fader. ;-)
With that fact that I have no Internet, no laptop and no bits and bytes in my vacation in Egypt, don’t expect the next blog entry before November 25.
