Jacqueline Lambert @WorldWideWalkies

Trial by TRILEX – Coming to Terms with Split Rim Wheels!

Jacqueline Lambert's overland expedition truck The Beast photographed in Matka Canyon, North Macedonia

In 1973, the Welsh rock band, Budgie, sang about being in the grip of a tyre fitter’s hand. Part of the soundtrack of my teenage years, I could never have guessed how prophetic this song would become one day, almost half a century later.

Welcome To Kosovo

A picture of The Beast, a 6x4-wheel drive Volvo N10 ex-army truck converted into a camper with author Jacqueline Lambert standing in its doorway in a yellow dress

Hungerford. Lockerbie. Dunblane. Sleepy backwaters whose syllables might have languished in obscurity forever, had they not become intertwined irrevocably with tragedy. I felt the same as we crossed into Kosovo. My knowledge of Europe’s newest country – a territory half the size of Wales, populated by fewer than two-million people – derived mostly from shockingContinue reading “Welcome To Kosovo”

Marvellous Matka – Matka Canyon & Skopje Revisited, North Macedonia

Mark and I fled from Skopje first thing.

Riots in Skopje & The North Macedonian Name Game

In my last post, I asked, “What’s in a name?” when we discussed the City of Light. Little did we realise that we were about to discover the mother of all naming disputes – and get caught up in the news. Once upon a time, in a land not-so-far away, there was a little countryContinue reading “Riots in Skopje & The North Macedonian Name Game”