Where do I begin? There is a saying that we are only here once, but are we? This I’m not sure of, no one is. I often think of this because of my fascination or you could even call it an obsession with Egypt, particularly Ancient Egypt. This fascination \ obsession \ feelings, whatever you would like to call it comes from deep inside my soul. I really have no words to describe the feeling, I know that every time I visit the country, I feel total euphoria a feeling that I have arrived back home.
When I was a small child I used to stay with my granny while my parents were both at work and I have been told by my grandparents, and parents, who are no longer with me now, that from as young as the age of three, I would talk about Egypt. Of course they didn’t have a clue of what I was talking about at the time…. but I was so adamant in the things I would say and they were so frustrated at not being able to verify what I was saying at the time. So who knows if we are only here once?
There were no books about the subject when I was that young, and if there were, I’m sure at that age, I wouldn’t have been able to understand them or even read them for that matter. We never even hit on the subject when I went to school, which is a pity, as I’m sure I would have done better than I did with the history of my own country, England.
I have many, many good friends in Egypt, some of which I have known since I first went there in ‘1989’, and I feel I have known them all my life, this, I’m sure, is down to the people themselves, warm, friendly and forever helpful.
I have constantly got the topic of Egyptology on my mind. My house is full of books, so many that I could run a library from home, and I have always got my head in them. I also read Hieroglyphs to some degree and forever trying to learn to read more…and if that’s not enough I’m also trying to learn Arabic, which I have mastered quite a bit, and I write about Egypt for a certain educational faculty’s
My home is like a shrine; I have very tasteful things around the place representing Egypt; old and new.
So it’s with this, that I decided to try out a website which is not really written work, but photographs from some of my many holidays there.
I hope you enjoyed browsing through these photos, and that you get some idea of my passion and love for the place. |
