Pecha Kucha – A Night of Adventure
FIFTEEN superb speakers from across the spectrum of expeditions, adventure and travel will talk about their experience to raise money for Home and Homes for Children. Here is my story.
5th of November 2006
New York Marathon with a fractured leg
31st October
It had taken a couple of months to secure permission from the Istanbul authorities to cross the Bosporus bridge into Asia on foot. This had not been possible since the late 1970s, when the surprisingly high number of suicides committed by jumping from the dizzyingly high bridge led to the walkway being closed to pedestrians…
25th October 2006
Hello all! As you can see from the above photo we are now within an incredibly tiny distance from Istanbul. We have been getting progressively excited for the past few days knowing that we could complete the walk in one big day’s walk. However, we are drawing out the excitement for as long as we can and,…
18th October
I’m going to have to keep this blog fairly brief. This slightly third-world computer is causing me all sorts of headaches and however much you all want to know what we’re up to, I value my sanity over and above your curiosities. Firstly I’m sure you’re all wondering what has happened to the dots above my…
6th October 2006
Hello! Many apologies for the lack of blog updates for the last few weeks but we have been on the road covering the huge distance from Belgrade to Sofia in Bulgaria. Since leaving Belgrade we headed due south for the first time towards the town of Nis in southern Serbia. The route took us firstly…
20th September 2006
Zdravo! After extensive passport checks and our first border stamps we have reached Serbia! There has been a dramatic culture change and we are now truly in the depths of Eastern Europe. We are currently in Belgrade after a long 7 days of solid walking since our last blog update from Croatia. It has been…
10th September
Hello! By the time you read this blog we shall be crossing the Croatian border in to Serbia. Since leaving Zagreb over a week ago, we have been racing in the straightest line possible towards Belgrade. This included a quick trip into Bosnia to add another country to the ever growing list. Over the past…
5th September 2006
Well, another blog, another country. This one comes to you from Zagreb, in Croatia, where we are enjoying another of our none-too-frequent days off. The sun is shining and the sky is blue, and all would be well if Andy and I hadn’t just discovered, thanks to RAC Routeplanner, that there’s still a ridiculous 1,600kms…
30th August 2006
We have reached Slovenia! And not only that, we are already in the capital, Ljublubljublana. Leaving Italy was a little less dramatic than our high altitude arrival, with less of the heroic summiting of mountain peaks as dawn broke, and more clambering through a hedgerow into someones garden in the drizzle. Since then we have…
