Off to the Desert

Snow, snow, snow everywhere, a long, long winter of it, and my only way to escape was to fly to warmer climes. Thus I flew away for a month in Egypt, with friends and children, renting a house in the old hippy Bedouin settlement of Dahab by the sea in the Sinai peninsula (its kind of like the Goa of the Middle East). We rented a house by the Gulf of Aqaba at the Black Prince Disco and hung out in cafes, socialising, while looking out to the coast of Saudi Arabia, snorkelled the amazing Red Sea with its multi coloured fish wonders and coral reefs, horse rode along the beaches, enjoyed the flirtatious attentions of handsome young Egyptian men and went on an adventurous foray into the desert for a few days, sleeping on the sands under the stars with just a blanket.
When we returned, and by then this was the month of March, what should happen but the snows descend from the Heavens yet again and its more of the winter getting trapped in your house experience!!!
Now I am so missing the bright colours and excitement of Egypt...

                      Its me in a desert world

I have a matriarchal DNA and thus a female lineage that goes back to the eastern Mediterranean lands (from the High Caucasus reaching right down and round into the lands of Egypt). This I know from discovering that I carry a rare and very old type of mtDNA. I can imagine my own ancient mothers in this kind of environment. It touched my soul deeply to be there, even brought tears to my eyes... There is a Bedouin tribe in these parts that descends from people who came down from the Caucasus in early Christian times. They live in the area of Mount Sinai close to Dahab. They married with the Bedouin peoples and eventually converted to Islam but always remember their heritage is really from the environs of the Black Sea. Maybe they are my mothers times many mothers people... who knows????