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TRAVELOGUE EGYPT
If I have a passion for writing I equally have a passion for travelling.
We all have different and very personal approaches to travelling, and our own way of feeling and relating to it varies during our lifetime as a result of our experience and the knowledge acquired.
Usually, as for any other source of learning, the more you know the more you want to know. It’s kind of a circle where you have to enter at one point and, once inside, you hardly get off.
I would say, in other words, that for loving something, you have to know it; but to know it you’d better love it. Which one of these viewpoints you take anyway, there is always a first step to it.
I guess my first step towards “travelling” was at the age of six… months when my father got a post at Beirã, in the north of Portugal, near to the border with Spain. We were in October 1941; World War was at its beginnings.
After about one month at Beirã, my father was sent to Barca d’Alva, another close-by village. He was working at the time for a German export company sited in Portugal, his job consisting in supervising the goods in transit to Germany: mainly cork, wine and other Portuguese foodstuff articles.
For my first birthday, my parents took me to Vilar Formoso. That day, for the first time in my life, I stepped on foreign land: I stood at the border sign, my left foot on Portuguese soil, and my right foot on Spanish land.
Six years later, for my seventh birthday, I was again standing on the very same spot and being taken on photo.
Since those faraway days, what a long way I’ve done travelling! It’s one of those wonderful life experiences I want to share here with you through my book “Travelogue Egypt – Through the Eyes of a Western Woman”.
By the way, this is an ebook, also known as “kindle” book. It can be read on the Pc, Mac, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, or Android Phone. As to a paperback version, it’s foreseen and hopefully still published this year.
We all have different and very personal approaches to travelling, and our own way of feeling and relating to it varies during our lifetime as a result of our experience and the knowledge acquired.
Usually, as for any other source of learning, the more you know the more you want to know. It’s kind of a circle where you have to enter at one point and, once inside, you hardly get off.
I would say, in other words, that for loving something, you have to know it; but to know it you’d better love it. Which one of these viewpoints you take anyway, there is always a first step to it.
I guess my first step towards “travelling” was at the age of six… months when my father got a post at Beirã, in the north of Portugal, near to the border with Spain. We were in October 1941; World War was at its beginnings.
After about one month at Beirã, my father was sent to Barca d’Alva, another close-by village. He was working at the time for a German export company sited in Portugal, his job consisting in supervising the goods in transit to Germany: mainly cork, wine and other Portuguese foodstuff articles.
For my first birthday, my parents took me to Vilar Formoso. That day, for the first time in my life, I stepped on foreign land: I stood at the border sign, my left foot on Portuguese soil, and my right foot on Spanish land.
Six years later, for my seventh birthday, I was again standing on the very same spot and being taken on photo.
Since those faraway days, what a long way I’ve done travelling! It’s one of those wonderful life experiences I want to share here with you through my book “Travelogue Egypt – Through the Eyes of a Western Woman”.
By the way, this is an ebook, also known as “kindle” book. It can be read on the Pc, Mac, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, or Android Phone. As to a paperback version, it’s foreseen and hopefully still published this year.
Writing4Children of all ages
Writing is one of my passions, and I'd like to share it with others.
I also believe that a good read starts with chosing the book we are going to read next, to read to our children or simply passing th ...more
I also believe that a good read starts with chosing the book we are going to read next, to read to our children or simply passing th ...more
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