From Rat Race to Road Trip: Overlanding With Four Dogs!
In central Albania, nestled between mountains with the Osum river running through its historic centre, Berat is justifiably seen as one of the country’s most beautiful towns.
It is UNESCO listed, and the legend of its founding is a Tale of Two Brothers, Tomorr and Shpirag, who might have been giants, and were inseparable – until they became rivals in love.
I took a blogging break at the end of last year to launch and market my latest book, To Hel In A Hound Cart – Journey To The Centre Of Europe. This was the fifth and last book in the Adventure Caravanning With Dogs series, which follows our journey since we gave up work in 2016, accidentally bought a caravan, then decided to rent out the house, sell most of our posessions and tour full time.
Then, on Friday 13th December 2019, when Brexit became a certainty, I uttered a sentence to my beloved which would change our lives forever.
“I’ve had enough of Britain, let’s go to Mongolia!”
While Caravan Kismet was a faithful travel companion, who gave us safe passage over the Carpathian Mountains, two cornfields, and a footpath in Romania, we felt the Gobi Desert might be a step too far.
On 13th January 2020, we purchased The Beast, a 6×4-wheel drive Volvo N10 truck unseen off the internet, and converted her into our new home.
Continue reading “World Wide Walkies – The Story So Far!”
Thank you to all of you for reading and following our adventures throughout 2022, and for all your lovely comments and feedback.
World Wide Walkies will be taking a blogging break until early January.
I am sure that you will have more important things to do over the Festive Period than wonder about what happens next in our Never Mind The Balkans Tour, but rest assured that we will resume the tale our tour in Albania in the New Year!
I’ve been featured in a magazine in Pittsburgh by a journalist I met in Sarajevo.
Click on the link below to read the article about our alternative lifestyle, featured in @postindustrial:
After losing their jobs, a couple converts an Army truck and hits the road
The journalist, Carmen Gentile, wrote Blindsided by the Taliban, an account of how he was shot in the face by a rocket propelled grenade while embedded in the Army in Aghanistan. He was lucky to survive. His book is a fascinating insight into the complicated life and loves of a war correspondent.
Continue reading “Living Large By Living Small – Why I Chose An Alternative Lifestyle”
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