I just felt like starting up this journal for I often think of the time I was there, on that island with its temples. It was a golden day, the sky was so blue and the air so gentle.
Having dreamed so long of going there, having read and studied so much about it, I really couldn´t believe that it was true, that I was actually sitting in one of those stinking little motorboats, leaving Shellal, getting around a bend and there - out there she lay.
Golden pylons reaching above the greenery. As we came closer, we saw flowers and inscriptions on the walls. And setting my feet on its ground, it almost felt asif I wasn´t myself... We wandered around for hours, I knew every building beforehand yet it was all a surprize for me to see it with real eyes. And the most strange feeling came before me when at one instance I was standing in the doorway to the Hypostyle Hall looking out over the Inner Courtyard with the Mammisi to my right and the portal out to th Outer Courtyard straight ahead: it was one of complete peace and complete safety. I cannot really remember having that feeling anywhere before, though of course it must have happened.
But this time it was so very unexpected and so very real. I cannot forget it.