Everybody here in Egypt are hoping for the tourists to come back. The locals are trying to spread the message that Egypt are now safe to be in, but everywhere you hear the same story: that people are afraid of traveling to Egypt. The economic crisis is a fact, specially in the cities that are [...]

1. Sharm El Sheikh to Dahab
2. Scuba diving in Dahab
3. Dahab festival

In the BBC documentary “A farm for the future” it is discussed about the oil shortage that will occur in our very near future. Today, the way we are living are incredibly depending on oil and the way this will effect us mostly is that the food prices will go up very fast when the [...]

I recently met some travelers in Dahab and we started talking about what they work with. It turns out most of them were pilots and they told me how difficult it is today to be a pilot because of how the low cost airline companies like Ryanair treat them. They told me that to start [...]

When travelling in some Arabic cities (and other places also of course) you need to be well informed or to be awake all the time, not to get tricked. This is sadly also the case in Sharm El Sheikh when you want to go to Dahab. It starts when you arrive at the airport (if you [...]

Here are my normal post about living costs, this time about Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The supermarket used this time was HiperDino but there are other cheap alternatives like Carrefour & Spar. STORE / SUPERMARKET (HiperDino) 1,5 liter water bottle 40 cent 1,5 liter juice 86 cent 1 liter milk 1,12 euro 1 liter [...]

1. Price examples from Tarifa, Spain
2. Price examples from Lisbon, Portugal
3. How to get NIE on Gran Canaria, Spain
4. Gran Canaria to Tenerife
5. Prices in Mozambique (examples from Maputo)

It can be a good idea to get a residency (NIE) if you are planing to stay on the Canary Islands for some months. This will only take you one morning to fix and costs 20 euro. With the NIE paper you have cheaper prices on most things here, like half price on flights and cruises. [...]

1. Gran Canaria & backpacking
2. Price examples from Tarifa, Spain

Today I had two guys trying to steal my things in a local bus using the sandwich technique (pressing against you from each direction). This has happened to me a lot of times, in a lot of countries, but they never got away with it so far. Here are a few tips that will help [...]

For the last 10 years I have gave money to different kinds of charities. Some year ago I found Kiva (thanks to my mother), an organization which allows you to easily do microloans to a big part of the world where it is really needed. The website gives you opportunity to browse through the database [...]