“We can’t go to Mongolia if you can’t cope with this.” Mark’s words stung like a whip. I felt desolate. On a strip of yellow dirt, in a 16-tonne truck, with nowhere to turn around, we were lost somewhere in southern Albania.
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Gjirokastra to Butrint, & St. Nikolas’ Monastery, Albania
Appearances can be deceptive. In some ways, the articulated lorries made us feel a little better. Clearly, the narrow, winding mountain road could take large traffic. In other ways, however, it tested our nerve. Albanian drivers have no qualms about nipping around lorries, or even other cars already overtaking them, on blind bends, regardless ofContinue reading “Gjirokastra to Butrint, & St. Nikolas’ Monastery, Albania”
The Road to Gjirokastra, Albania
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when it’s 39°C, a man in possession of a chemical toilet that hasn’t been emptied for a week is in need of a black water disposal point.
Living Large By Living Small – Why I Chose An Alternative Lifestyle
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: Living Large By Living Small After losing their jobs, a couple converts an Army truck and hits the road The journalist, Carmen Gentile, wroteContinue reading “Living Large By Living Small – Why I Chose An Alternative Lifestyle”
World Wide Walkies 