Robert Temple's Blog: One Down, Two To Go (and a first attempt at video blogging!)

Merry Boxing Day!!!

I sincerely hope you had an incredible Christmas this year and that Santa brought you everything you desired. Its amazing how often people say that isn't it... "Did you get anything nice?". Sometimes you wonder if things become to commercialised and forget the real reasons for these festivities. I'm not a religious guy but I guess its all about spending time with your families etc.

I'm currently away in Egypt at the moment in Hurghada, a lovely fast-developing tourist resort. Unfortunately it is too far away from the Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings, an area I will visit upon my next return.

I'm here performing three shows for The Ministry of Sound Red Sea and Hed Kandi Red Sea. We had our first show last night following a smashing Christmas dinner. About 80 people in the audience and I'm delighted to say that they seemed to love the show. I've attached some photos of it in this blog. I have another show tonight and one more tomorrow. I was a bit worred as 2 days ago I developed "the Egyptian Belly". Its a hideously unpleasant illness which involves spending most of the night with your head down the toilet! Fortunately I appear to have recovered quickly enough and with any luck it wont return!!

Everyone has been very friendly and really taken care of us here. I'm working alongside a magician chum of mine, Jack Bryce and we've had a great laugh out here.

Lots of people are talking about the show all over Hurghada today and I've had a few people come up and ask me about hypnotism, myself and the show.. which is lovely!

The Egyptians were quite taken by the show. I don't think they have ever seen anything like it before.

Anyway today I've also included my first attempt at video blogging. I've a lot to learn about it but hey.. ya gotta start somewhere.

I'll try and get some more photos of the show tonight and tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll show you something that we saw here in Egypt... it made me giggle anyway!!