From Rat Race to Road Trip: Overlanding With Four Dogs!
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.
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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”
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Mark and I fled from Skopje first thing.
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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”
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