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Dalan Beach, Vlorë, Albania – Paradise Lost

Every day, humans take five billion photos. According to one source, we have created 12.4 trillion throughout history, but what is the most important photograph ever taken?

Is it the blurred and indistinct ‘View from the Window at Le Gras’, the earliest surviving photographic image, created by Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce in 1826? The first man on the moon? History’s first medical X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895, showing the bones in his wife Anna Bertha’s hand?

I am a biochemist, and therefore biased, but many argue that it is Photo 51, an X-ray diffraction image captured by Rosalind Franklin and Ray Gosling in 1952. This tiny nondescript image enabled Watson, Crick, and Wilkins to deduce that the structure of DNA was a double helix. Knowing the structure clarified the mechanism by which DNA could replicate itself – and the genetic blueprint it carries – exactly.

The trio won the Nobel Prize in 1962.

Photo 51 helped them unravel the secret of life.

Of course, these are earth shattering examples, but one morning in Vlorë, Albania, I took the most important photo I’ve ever taken in my life.

Comic Dog/Travel Memoir Blog Tour – To Hel In A Hound Cart by Jacqueline Lambert

My new comic travel memoir, To Hel In A Hound Cart – Journey To The Centre Of Europe starts its blog tour tomorrow.

During the tour, a series of book bloggers will share their reviews of my latest travel memoir, which follows our adventures touring Italy, France, Germany, The Czech Republic and Poland with pups, in a pandemic.

To Hel In A Hound Cart – Journey To The Centre Of Europe has already received multiple 5* reviews on Amazon worldwide.

Here are a few examples from Amazon.co.uk:

A Witty, easy and engaging read: This is a sparkling romp across Europe, full of fascinating facts, hair-raising adventures, and sharp witty stories. And four adorable pups! Alyson Sheldrake, Artist and Author
Honest and funny account of touring with four fur babies and a husband!: Once again Jackie delivers a delightfully entertaining digest of her travels from Italy to Poland and home again. Living the dream, although a few nightmarish moments creep in. Jackie doesn’t shy away from telling the warts and all story, but on the whole it is a cheerful recap of her and her husband’s adventures with the pawsome foursome. Wendy C.
Entertaining and beautifully written: I love the author’s wonderfully descriptive writing, so engaging I didn’t want to stop reading. I particularly enjoy all the historical detail whch sends me off to read more of the places she has visited. Best of all I love her irrepressible sense of fun and witty asides which are often side splittingly funny. Rebecca H.

Here’s the timetable. Visit each blogger’s site on the day to see what they have to say. I hope they liked it – I will be holding my breath….

Caravanning With Dogs & Living In A Truck – Brainwave Podcast with Travel Book Writer Jacqueline Lambert

Here is my interview with fellow traveller, author, and radio presenter, Gail Hulnick, for her Brainwave podcast.

Have a listen to find out about my seven years as a full-time nomad, the Fab Four, our pawsome Poodeliers, my Adventure Caravanning With Dogs books, and what I really miss while living in a truck.

Click HERE to listen to Episode 79 – Jacqueline Lambert on Apple Podcasts

It’s also available on Spotify, Audible, Stitcher, I Heart Radio, and WindWord Publishing group.

Click here to discover more episodes of the Brainwave Podcast, including with NYT Bestselling Novelist Les Standiford, French director/animator, Pierre Coffin, about his work on Despicable Me and Minions franchises, and filmmaker David Kirschener, who has produced, written, or executive produced some of Hollywood’s most famous family movies.

Find my previous interviews and podcasts on Where I’ve Been Featured, and discover my books via the links below:

Join Us As We Continue Our Adventures!

Berat, Albania – A Tale of Two Brothers & A Stroll Through ‘The City of 1000 Windows’

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.