Travelling

packing ....spent my life doing a lot of that lol, I moved over a hundred times!

This time holiday packing, not done much of that.

That's a weird thing, packing to go on holiday to the UK, where I was born & had a life for 51 years, until that is, I came to Egypt for a summer break.

Now I go to the UK for my summer break.

Upside down Universe, my life always been a bit upside down.

Started a full time degree at 50yrs of age, took a gap year at 51 & dropped out in favour of voluntary work at 52. All of these I could have done aged 18, 19 & 20.

It's been a jumbled up crazy path, though i wouldn't change any of it because maybe wouldn't be in the marvellous space I am today. Though it does feel as though however my path unfolded, there was destined or fated to be a lenghty chapter in Egypt.

The moment I stepped off a plane onto Egyptian sand, there was a strangely new yet completely familiar sense of mmmm is this home?

If like me, you never really felt at home, settled anywhere, that is an odd sensation to experience; especially when you have landed in the Sinai Desert.

It is inexplicable, excepting to say, perhaps it could have been a number or places across the world that could have gripped me that way,

so hungry I was for sanctuary, peace & a totally new chapter.

Needed to touch my soul to ancient roots, to breathe life into my broken spirit,

to nourish the semi demolished temple ruins of my body & find my heart food & sun & air to pump some life into me once more.

massive change, from the western world to the african arabic egypt ....

without solid friends here, you wouldn't survive easily

nothing much you have learned in the west will help you here

its a sideways world

Ancient, Modern

Biblical, Internet.

Now, a holiday, in the west.

Adventure on ...tally ho.... yalla beena

As my friend Mustapha says

all engines running

Loving it :))