el quseir, red sea, egypt 2024

we have spent 9 late november days in the wonderful mövenpick resort El Quseir (quseer, el qoseir, al-qusair) at the red sea in egypt. here in the south was still summer time, you know? 🌞

one of the two camels for tourists out there

... COMING SOON ....

i'm just waiting at the hurghada airport for our flight back home, so it is the optimal opportunity to recapitulate our stay in EGYPT, isnt it? 😇

• well, we wanted to escape from the snowy and cold weather in munich for some time. this has functioned perfectly. in El Quseir, some 130 km and 2h to the south from the hurghada airport by car, was still summer. it means 25-28°C in the day time, but quite cold in the evenings. thus a coat and a woolen beanie were needed, especially because of the strong winds out there
• the major issue was of course the havary of the cargo ship VSG GLORY at the coral reef in front of our hotel some 30 m from the beach at our day #1. despite of outflow of the oil from its engine and environmental rescue operations with special plastic tampon like cleaning rags used to draw the oil from the water surface, not much happened ... the vsg glory sunk much deeper, but it will most likely not sink competely (WRONG! it sunk 2 days after we've returned home. the sea water is there probably 60m deep) ... of course, there was a lot of oil + plastic waste swimming in the ocean, but dont worry my dears, we could enjoy our time anyway. i especially the long walks at the beach to the next hotel (flamenco beach & resort) while collecting trash 😉 => each day one small plastic bag of waste .... and i was not alone. there was one swiss lady doing the same each morning. after few days, there was only garbage brought by wind + waves at night and no old trash at all. chakka! for some strange reason, walking from our hotel to the other side in the direction of the radisson blu hotel, there was soooooooooo much waste (plastic, broken glass, cigarettes, fishermen stuff, ...) that a professional cleaning team with trucks to transport all that waste would be needed
• our hotel mövenpick resort el quseir was not only quite expensive, but also really good despite the quite small bungallow rooms. especially the food. plus the easy access to the sea. in a coral reef area like here, is this feature not obvious, you know? our neighbour hotel flamenco had no real swimming opportunity as their footbridge over the reef was broken and the water directly at the beach much too shallow for swimming
• we have made 2 half day trips outside of our hotel
• #1 we have visited El Quseir, which is both, the oldest city at the red sea and 5,000 years old. unfortunately, you will not find much to explore here today. there is a fort from its turkish era, some mosques, but not old or at least nice in some way. there is an italian catholic church from the colonial era, which is an orthodox church for the egyptian coptic christians today. especially el quseir's port was a huge disappointment for me ... and the garbage at the beach promenade and inside the narrow streets in the historic old city as well. the local shops here are mostly for the egyptian people themselves as there is still not much tourism directly in the city. and yes, we haven't visited the new city with modern style houses and shops
• #2 jeep 'safari' trip to the desert. well, we have visited a bedouin family in the desert, tried to ride a camel for 5 to 10 minutes, have got a cup of tea + have seen a beautiful sun set and then came back to the jeep & quad center at the beach in Marsa Alam for barbecue, arabic dance performance and yes, for stars watching. heaven & hell, what a mess!  they've switched off the lights in their tourist camp, but there was still light in the street & co. ... okay, we could see many stars and the milky way .... the stars watching issue was the only reason we've booked that trip in the 1st place, you know? my wife was disappointed like a small child which didnt get its promissed sweetie. we have believed and been also told so by the travel guide before booking this trip, that the watching of the stars will be done in the desert at COMPLETE DARKNESS around us, you see? at least we have met 4 funny polish women on business holiday paid by their company in our jeep, so we could laugh most of the time 😀
• for me is also important to see how the people manage their lives. if you work with tourists and get paid or at least get tipped in euros or dollars, then probably fine. in other case you have to withstand a massive inflation. just imagine, the currency devaluation aka the twin sister of inflation between our last visit in march 2023 and now was 70%. wtf? 70% in 1.5 years sums up to 46,6% a year. of course, the average egyptian wages did not wentt 46.6% higher than 1.5 years ago

more pictures here.

last egypt visit to makadi bay / hurghada in 03-2023 here.

give PEACE a chance. will we?

the ukrainian army was just allowed by US + GB + FR to use aka shoot american long distance missiles (atacms) + british (storm shadow) + french (scalp) on targets inside russia .... and the ukrainians already did so ... so sad 😭

everyone knows, this can't be done by ukrainian forces alone as there is satellite data needed (the ukraine has no satellites) + landscape data + technical know-how as well ... russia will respond, of course ... president putin told already many times that russia will hit targets inside USA, great britain + france in that case, didnt he? does the 'collective west' really believe, putin is just bluffing? has the 'collective west' forgot, russia is still the #2 or #1 nuclear powers in the world?

at least germany under chancellor scholz does not deliver long range taurus missiles to ukraine. this would soon change under his opponent merz (CDU) or the green party (habeck + baerbock), so be carefull which party you vote for in the upcoming premature elections (in february 2025?).

THUS, MY DEARS: if we dont STOP NOW the symbolic & imho also satanic 1% aka our so called 'elites', there will be no christmas 2024 for 99% of us in 4 weeks. right? 😱

of course, the in recent u.s. elections entirely defeated biden / harris adminstration tries to fabricate a mess for the elected president trump, who will take over the white house in january ... okay, but want we die only because trump aka the hope for the end of the conflict in ukraine comes to power one (!) month too late? just in case you cant believe how could this single person - donald trump - save the entire world from a nuclear disaster, just imagine: the trump administration could e.g. abandon the flow of  money & weapons to the kiev / kyiv regime immediately and also motivate / force / ask russia to start negotiations ... and the war would be over soon, wouldnt it?

sadly, for the palestinians is trump no hope at all. both, biden and trump (plus the north atlantic terror organization NATO plus the EU as well), will continue to support israeli genocide in gaza + west bank + lebanon (+ soon in jerusalem as well?) + etc.

the old cartoon by ben garrison from my 2022 ukraine blog

is more topical than ever ... so sad again ...

source unknown, but so true for the western elites / NWO 😏

(necrophobia of sniffing for 3 years, but now eager to start WWIII against nuclear powers russia)

their children vs. your children ~ ursula von der leyen + general lebed

pro trump arts created by my buddy udo p. linke

well, after few weeks off, i've joined the wednesdays' MSA (münchen steht auf) protest & march for peace (+ for reappraisal of the unconstitutional plandemic corona measures) in munich again. enjoy few pictures from our march through the streets of munich + few interesting banners + twitter posts from november 2024: 

MSA (münchen steht auf), wettersteinplatz, 20-11-2024

we, the people, do not want a war !!

what would my cat felix as chancellor do? 🐱

... found on twitter aka X, november 2024:

i'm not at war against russia ... me either

like zelensky and ukraine? yes, yes, especially if we consider what ukraine was before and what it is today with zelensky as president / king. but let me make clear one thing. i do not mean 'clown' devaluing or derogatory in any way. unlike most of you, my dear readers, i've seen and understood few of his performances and yes, he is a really, really good + funny comedian, if you asked me. but you know what? in all of his performances i've seen, ZELENSKY spoke RUSSIAN!

so WTF is this stupid war all about?

the north-atlantic-terror-alliance NATO 1998 vs. 2022.

who is the aggressor? who is thread for peace in the world?

peace, frieden, pax, mir, mier ... and yes, lets STOP WARS, will we?

found somewhere down the road, probably among the information & advertisement postcards in the restaurant after the peace march. well, after so many bad guys & girls above, i liked to show ya also people who are obviously good or at least obviously pretty 😃 

motto? some people are good, some people are bad.

john lennon ~ give peace a chance

john lennon ~ imagine = one of my all time favorite songs + messages for life => enjoy 

few more pictures here.

stoos + uetliberg => hiking in CH

mt. stoos + uetliberg => what a nice hiking tours in switzerland, CH. well, at our last visit by our daughter in zurich in july we've concentrated on sightseeing in the cities zurich and zug + on swimming in the lake zuger see. this time we only have been in the nature. nice! 

our stops in switzerland (schweiz, CH) this time: zürich, vision apartments (sihl city, alt-wiedikon), uetliberg, schwyz, mt. stoos, chair lifts (sesselbahnen) to klingenstock 1935m and back from fronalpstock 1922m down again + a loooong (3h?) hiking tour via huserstock 1904m in between, hotel & restaurant alpstubli at stoos with einsiedler bier with mountains hay aka bergwiesenheu (unfortunately from nearby einsiedeln and not from my parents' native einsiedel an der göllnitz). the only bad luck today? we couldnt see the lake vierwaldstätter see below the clouds ...

mt. stoos, kanton schwyz, switzerland, CH

view from mt. stoos at heavy fog below us

main train station, zurich

vision apartments, sihl-city, zurich

a nearby restaurant 'restaurant-vereinigung' vis-a-vis vision apartments

zürich, part enge

a sofa inside the church? strange and nice 😇

let's climb up the small uetliberg (üetliberg) mountain, 870 m

is it me?

finally at the top of the uetliberg mountain

this would be the view at lake zürichsee from the uetliberg at a nicer day 😄

the serbian artist marina abramovic presented her works in zürich

 sponzored by swiss re, so our daughter had a free entry. she liked it

what an entry to the exposition 😋

good-bye, zürich

city of schwyz

kanton schwyz

hiking tour at mt. stoos

kleiner mythen (1811 m) + großer mythen (1898 m) above fog

covering the city of schwyz as seen from klingenstock 1935 m

3h walk between klingenstock 1935m and fronalpstock 1922 m

berge, berge, berge aka mountains 💖🌲🌄

huserstock 1904m

the hiking path up there ...

the last few meters to cottage & chair lift were soooo easy

ski hotel alpstubli in the village of stoos (1305m)

einsiedler bier aus ensiedeln, CH

here our experiences from zurich + zug in july and pictures from both visits 2024 together here.