the view from our room in egypt

the ice bar in soho square sharm el sheik

last month i took my neice to egypt, we stayed near sharks bay ( no sharks thankfull) but lots of gorgeous weather of around 45 degrees 

hotel was fab,  right on the beach, food was great  and shopping in namma bay is always a good laugh so everthing was going great untill my neice saw poster for Peter Andre In soho square which was basically 100 yards from our hotel

she wanted to go and see him i said no

she moaned she wanted to go and see him

I said  maybeeee ( in the next century)

She said she really really really wants to go and see him

i tried to bribe her with  fake ghd ( 20 quid) that she had seen . fake handbags, and a trip to the ice bar

she still said no she really wanted to see peter andre

so i agreed under the conditions that i didnt have to reallyt watch and listen  i mean how hard can it be he only has two songs so it wont be long

oh no Mr Andre did cover version after cover version of every song i could imagine

3 hours of him my neice and everyone else singing along apart from me who had my head buried in my kindle

im still traumatised  and embarrassed that i sat through a peter andre event , even now

my last trip to the channel islands went a bit tits up for want of a better word

i had a great time in both Jersey and  Gurnesy the weather was perfect for all 10 days that i was there so much that i extended my trip by another 4 days

However problems began when i was leaving Gurnsey  i booked my flight with blue island to travel from Gurnsey to Bristol however when i got to the airport fog had basically stopped all fligths in and out of the airport

no probs i thought  i have been delayed in the past  and the airlines always look after you

oh no , blue island are based in the channel island which are outside of the eu which means they dont have to do bugger all -  they just offer you the next flight availible ( theyu dont even have to give you a refund)   

so it was with great frustration that even though by 5pm the airport had started letting flights in and out of Gurnsey airport   blue island was simply not flying and when i rang them to ask them what i was supposed to do being stuck on on island withouth  a hotel  it was basically tough shit

even more frustration was that the couple in front of me had booked with flybe and were being collected from the airport, taken to the bloody hotel that i had just left , being given evening meal and breakfast and then put on the next flight in the afternoon at 2pm

me however had to stump up 200 quid to get the flybe  flight to exeter and then get a train back home

i did manage to get my money back but never ever again i thought ryan air was bad but this lot are pisstakers

in fact im wondering why dear old michale oleary of ryan air hasnt moved his base to the channel islands or even the isle of man that way he wouldnt have to have paid out millions in the ash cloud