Did You Miss Any Of These? Monthly Round Up June 2025

Wow! Time flies and here we are, half way through the year. It’s been a busy month. We’re currently in the UK escaping Schengen, as well as catching up with friends and inter-trip administration, such as doctors, dentists, vet visits (for the dogs!), truck maintenance, and applying for a Schengen-busting French Long Stay Visa. IfContinue reading “Did You Miss Any Of These? Monthly Round Up June 2025”

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today, 27 January 2025, is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the deadliest of the Nazi extermination camps, where more than a million people perished. In 1945, when they opened the gates, Soviet troops found 7,000 starving, terrified prisoners. Soldier Ivan Martynushkin said, “We saw emaciated, tortured, impoverished people. We could tell fromContinue reading “International Holocaust Remembrance Day”

A Wandering Merry Christmas from WorldWideWalkies!

With the festive season upon us, I would like to send you all my most heartfelt thanks for following our adventures, reading my blogs, books, and for all your lovely comments, feedback, and reviews. It really does mean the world to me. In the meantime, have a happy and peaceful Christmas, and we hope SantaContinue reading “A Wandering Merry Christmas from WorldWideWalkies!”

Welcome To Kosovo

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”