Text and images Britt-Arnhild Wigum
We share a few passions my oldest son and I.
Reading. Travelling. Writing. Coffee shops. Four of the passions we share.
For at least a couple of years we have talked about, dreamed about going to Egypt. To visit the World Library in Alexandria, to walk the streets of old Kairo, to see the Pyramids and the desert, to spend days on a boat along The Nile.
This coming Easter was to be our time for travels.
When we travel we often seek out the same places. The same bookstores. The same narrow streets. The same bars or coffee shops.
We both seek solitude. We can sit, alone, in a coffee shop for hours. With a book, a notebook and a feltpen, the environment, our thoughts, as our only company.
At some point, a few weeks ago, we decided Easter 2011 was not our time to travel to Egypt. We are happy about that now. Egypt is not the place for tourists, not the place for travellers, nor the place for a mother and a son seeking adventure. Not right now.
Only the future will let us know if we ever seek out to travel the world. Just the two of us. Mother and son.
Meanwhile I have two travel books to enjoy (Only two??????? Well, I have a hundreds, at least......) A Thousand Miles up the Nile, A woman's journey among the treasures of Ancient Egypt. By Amelia Edwards. Part I and II
And I have quite a few travels already travelled to write about.
Photos: Dubrovnic the summer of 2010. A city we both love, my son and I.
