El Shams - El Kebira - 23th March 2007

It is the time of the Big Sun gale. I remain sceptical about the Coptic Gales and their basis in scientific fact but I have to acknowledge that today we are in the middle of a gale. It has been simmering for the last 48 hours and the temperature and the wind from a southwest direction has been steadily increasing. These warm winds that sweep in from Africa (for there have been several) are certainly strange for someone from the northern parts of Europe. In that part of the world any wind is normally guaranteed to freeze the marrow of your bones.