My wildest adventure

In the early months of 2010, the year of my 50th birthday, I decided I would like to end the year doing something different, and dramatic! As a child I used to have a dream of seeing three things before I die, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Sydney Opera House and the Pyramids of Giza. Most people will know I have spent enough money travelling to the States to have paid for all of this several times over :) They were after all, childhood dreams.

I had already seen the Golden Gate Bridge, several times, Sydney is way too far for a brief holiday, so that left Egypt, and along with my darling friend Pat, booked a Nile Cruise for the beginning of December, which, with the mysteries of British Weather, turned into January 2011. A week on the Nile with a side trip to the Pyramids was heaven, we returned to the UK 8 days later, but some 8 months later, my heart was still in Egypt.

So now, having fulfilled that lifelong desire to see the ancient pyramids of Giza and visit some of the historic sites of Egypt, little could I have imagined that I would be sitting here in Egypt again, not merely for a holiday, but to taste some of the life here.

I am sure it is going to be entirely different to life in London, but that's ok, I want it to be.