I have been in Sharm El Sheikh for a few days when a group of Italians, met by chance on the ship, tell me about a very particular beach half an hour from my resort. So we organized a minibus and the next day, no sooner said than done, we all set off together to discover this curious place.
The car finally stops and shows us an entrance that in itself leaves us astonished and even more so, the panorama visible to our eyes once we cross the threshold, created from an apparently casual assembly of the most disparate ancient objects. At the top of a very long staircase that leads to the beach, we see a wonderful sea, embraced by this beach that seems, at first glance, an open-air attic where you can find huge wooden doors of ancient Egyptian houses, baskets of 50s irons, puppets, 80s motorcycles placed there together with the rest as furniture, coloured blown glass ampoules that come down from everywhere, coloured carpets that paint the landscape, an infinite number of tin containers of different sizes that together with the doors and other objects placed on a slope, make up impressive installations that are truly alternative, divided by colour and style, and at a certain point it is all clear: whoever created all this is an Artist who has been able to make a beach a work of art unique in the world! By chance (and perhaps nothing happens by chance), my group and I were under the umbrella chatting, when a guy who was clearly Egyptian but very good at speaking our language approached us. He greets us and welcomes us as a host knows how, finally wishing us a good day. It was him! And I, unstoppably curious by nature, can’t resist the sudden urge to ask him three thousand questions to find out the history of that incredible beach. An impromptu interview with Alfred could not be missed.
