October 16, 2013 3:47 pm
Published by Fay Cox
Kathryn Turner has just returned from a journey to South Sinai with Wind Sand & Stars. She reflects on how the desert has spoken to generations and might speak to a pilgrim group in our own day: In the depths... Read more
October 12, 2013 4:08 pm
Published by Fay Cox
Cheering news from an otherwise tense Sinai peninsula: St Catherine’s Monastery, closed to visitors by the Egyptian authorities since August, has reopened. This ancient house is home to a couple of dozen Greek Orthodox monks and mainstay of the Jabilaya... Read more
September 10, 2013 3:20 pm
Published by Fay Cox
Twelve students from Gordonstoun School embarked on an expedition to Tigray in northern Ethiopia in June 2013. Their base was the remote village of Mydaero and their objective, to help install a new 1.5km water pipeline to the school where... Read more
March 22, 2013 1:21 pm
Published by Fay Cox
We love to hear your stories from the desert and particularly enjoyed this account of a recent journey through South Sinai in March 2013: “I travelled to Egypt with a group of people all loosely connected to the girl’s old... Read more
February 22, 2012 2:15 pm
Published by Fay Cox
Wind Sand & Stars leaders are carefully selected not only for their essential safety skills and experience, but also for their ability to communicate and inspire the pupils in their care. Leader Jim Lewis (pictured with one of our Egyptian... Read more