It is El Gouna Customer Service’s pleasure to announce the reopening of the fully renovated Oil Libya gas station in Bustan effective Monday December 24th, 2018.l Picture courtesy of Dina Aboulela

The El Gouna Downtown is undergoing a subtle transformation to concentrate restaurants and nightspots around the pedestrian walkway and moving retail shops to the downtown periphery.  New Farm Produce shop being prepared beside Bestway Abu Amer fruit and veg shop to relocate by motorbike shop New shops to be built after Bestway New Shops to be added after Bestway Parking Seventh Star to open new cafe

Notes on GOC Committee Meeting with Management Held on Sunday 16th Dec 2018 at 10.00 am in GM’s Office. ( Readers who wish to join the GOC are requested to email Mr. Maher El Faham at melfaham@aol.com) Present: El Gouna Management: Mahmoud El Baroudi (GM), Nahawet Ali (Customer Services Director) GOC Committee: Maher El Faham, Diana Perry, Mark Pigden, Maureen Mateer, Samia Baladi. Land and Property registration Some properties in Old Nubia, Upper Nubia, Phase 4 and elsewhere can be registered, if owners wish.  For other properties, Orascom has still to pay the final instalments and related fees to the Tourist Development Agency for land registration. ACTION Nahawet to issue a list of all the properties which can be registered now, followed by regular updates New law banning sales transfer fees Orascom’s Legal Department has advised that this ban relates to government fees, not to fees imposed by developers.  GOC Committee has received different advic...

As part of the ongoing contacts between the Gouna Owners Club (GOC) and El Gouna Management, à meeting was held on the morning of Sunday December 16 to discuss areas of concern requiring attention. The agenda of that meeting is published here. We hope to be able to publish outcomes of these points in due course and if all parties have no objection. Agenda  GOC Committee Meeting  w ith   Management  Sunday 16 th  Dec 2018 - 10 .00 a m at GM Office Attendees: El  Gouna  Management:  Mahmoud EL  B aroudi ,  Others TBA . GOC Committee :    Maher El  Faham ,  Diana  Perry,  Mark  Pigde n , Maureen  Mateer ,  Samia  Baladi . Proposed  Agenda items: 1.  Land and  Property registration  – Status  update  and current plans  for implementation ?  2.  Orascom's  compliance wit h new law stopping any restricti ons or ...

In still unofficial reports, sources say that Mr. Mahmoud El Baroudi General Manager of El Gouna, is to  be leaving from 1st April next year, with his replacement not yet finalised.  Mr. El Baroudi has been El Gouna GM since November 2014.  Moreover a new Orascom CEO, Tarek Kamal, will take office in El Gouna from 1st Jan 19, overlooking both Hotels & Real Estate and El Gouna Operations businesses, and will spend 80% of his time in El Gouna, with the rest in Cairo, hence providing, for first time, a senior board member located in El Gouna for quicker decision making. Mr. Baroudi is expected to take on a senior role at Orascom in Oman. 

With the proliferation of restaurants in El Gouna and the plans for more to come, in the downtown area, Gouna News wondered what is it really like to run a restaurant in El Gouna.  For this we went to the indomitable Lialina Gallo, owner and operator of Pasta e Basta, the Italian Restaurant in Kafr El Gouna.  We discovered that Lialina was driven by a desire to renew the Kafr area. It needed a facelift. So she endeavored to redo two pathways, paint walls and design her restaurant over a misused area alongside the canal running through downtown. Lialina decorated her restaurant in cheerful bohemian colors. Then hired Luisa, an Arabic speaking, Italian Chef, as a consultant. They set up separate, but connected, areas for the kitchen, the washing up and the workshop.  A typical day for Pasta e Basta would see a slow start in the morning when staff arrive, usually at around 10am. The chefs will purchase within El Gouna fresh produce, vegetables, salad and fr...

The Italian Restaurant Pasta e Basta in Kafr el Gouna welcomed on Friday members of the Gouna Owners Club for dinner and drinks. We feature here pictures of the Social, courtesy of Mark Pigden

Check out this   RSS Feed  on an interesting excursion and outing in the mountains not far from Gouna featured in an Australian media outlet.

Join us for the annual Christmas bazaar at Cheeky Monkeys on the marina.  Free admission. Shop, eat, be entertained and be festive.  December 21st from 10am to 6pm To book an exhibitor table please phone 01222384567

You are invited to the ‘Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis Exhibition’ that is open in El Gouna until December 31st 2018 from 6pm to 8pm at El Gouna Library.  Mikalojus is one of the most famous artists and musicians in Lithuania’s modern history.  Mikalojus most famous and beautiful compositions will be played by Victoria who is a professional Lithuanian pianist.  For more information: Ext: 32589 Tel: 0653580023 Email : info@elgounalibrary.com

Join us on December 15th at 8pm at the TUB campus El Gouna for a feed of the opera La Traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi, from the MET in New York City.  Tickets are available at the Customer Service office downtown or from the TUB itself.  Tickets are 200 LE each.  For inquiries please contact tubcg@elgouna.com

Dear Friends of Rotary Please find link to the November 2018 Newsletter. https://view.publitas.com/rotary-club-red-sea-el-gouna/november-2018-newsletter-of-rc-red-sea-el-gouna/ Best wishes Georgina Cole Newsletter Editor --  Website: Rotary Club of Red Sea - El Gouna Rotary Club of Red Sea - El Gouna Facebook Page