Bombs in Dahab
I’m sure you have all heard the news about the bombs in Dahab by now… Terrible news of course and terrible timing as far as I am concerned as I was looking forward to my first ever foreign windsurfing holiday to Dahab, leaving on Saturday.
It is amazing how your thoughts on world news change when they directly affect you. Normally when I hear of such stories on the news and then see people heading to the affected area I think ‘Yep, I’d still go. It’s unlikely that it will happen again in the next few weeks, security will be tighter than ever and we can’t gve in to terrorism etc etc.’. But, now that it is for real and I am supposed to be going to the exact area that the bombs exploded in I have to think a little harder about whether I go or not. It certainly isn’t so easy to just say, ‘Yep, I’ll still go’ now that it is real.
It isn’t just me I have to think about either, I have a wife and son to think about too. They are staying here in Wales while I’m in Egypt, Morgan is too young to know anything about it, but it won’t be nice for Anna sat home here worrying about my safety. I’m just glad, for her sake, that I wasn’t out there this week.
I guess the only thing I can do now is to wait and see what the foreign office advise is about travelling to Dahab in the next few days.
