Lisa Rose Wright
In 2007 Lisa left a promising career as an ecologist catching protected reptiles and amphibians, and kissing frogs, to move to beautiful green Galicia with her blue-eyed prince (who has since become her blue-eyed husband but that’s another story).
She divides her time equally between growing her own food, helping to renovate a semi-derelict house (or actually two… but that’s also another story) and getting out and about to discover more of the stunningly beautiful area she calls home.
Lisa is happiest outside in her huerta weeding, watching the antics of her chickens, or in her kitchen cooking interesting recipes on her wood burning range.
Plum, Courgette & Green Bean Tart is her first memoir. Book two of the writing home series will feature m
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In her 'A Rosie Life In Italy' series, Rosie writes about buying a 22 roomed derelict villa in Italy by accident, renovating it and existing in Italy.
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Sabina Ostrowska
Sabina Ostrowska also known as Sabina O. is the author behind the bestselling 'New Life in Andalusia' series. Enjoying life among the sunny olive groves of southern Spain, Sabina crafts her narratives with a vivid sense of place. 'Shadows of Serenity,' her latest work, marks the debut of her cozy travel mystery series. Here, she invites readers on armchair adventures that span the globe. So pour a glass of your favorite wine and delve into these enthralling mysteries.
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Mary Hollendoner
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She has bicycled across Central America, motorcycled across Mexico, driven the length of Australia, and backpacked around Europe, S.E. Asia, and Africa – all as a prelude to the epic drive through the Americas that is the subject of this book.
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Janine Marsh
Janine Marsh is an ex Londoner who gave up life in the city for love and the good life in France. She is known as “flop chef not top chef” to her French friends (Madame Merde behind her back – and that’s a long story that’s in her book My Good Life in France!).
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She lives in France with 3 dogs, 6 cats, 4 geese, 28 ducks and 18 chickens who all have names and think she is the maid. She writes in a converted pigsty in her run-down farmhouse in the middle of nowhere rural France when she’s not travelling around France and writing about her discoveries for her blog or newspapers and magazines. -
Alison Stewart
Alison has had nine books published - two books for adults and seven for young people. Four of them have been translated into Italian, Danish, Dutch and Thai.
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Her latest project,Cold Stone Soup, an unpublished memoir about growing up under apartheid and migrating to Australia has won the FAW 2013 National Literary Awards (Jim Hamilton Award for a non-fiction manuscript). Cold Stone Soup was also runner-up in the 2010 Penguin/Varuna Scholarship.
Her first book for adults, Born Into the Country (Justified Press 1988, South Africa) was shortlisted for the 1987 AA Mutual Life Vita Young Writers’ Award. Heinemann Australia published her next adult novel, Bitterbloom in 1991. Her YA novel, The Wishing Moon was shortlisted for the 1995 Australian M -
Craig Briggs
If life deals you a bad hand, don’t fold, take a chance; a good player will always come out on top.
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Craig Briggs was born on the 12th of July 1962, in St. Luke’s Hospital, Huddersfield, the second child, and only son, of Donald and Glenys Briggs. The birth of their daughter had been a joy. The arrival of Craig would make the family complete. Unfortunately, Craig was not a ‘normal’ lad; he’d been born with congenital feet deformities.
Unaware of his disability, Craig got on with life as any infant would. His first birthday brought a gift that would change his life forever. A marvel of modern engineering, manufactured by J.E. Hanger and Co. of London for and on behalf of the National Health Service. Bespoke footwear gave him what the Vespa had -
Victoria Twead
Victoria Twead is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestselling author. Eleven years living in a tiny, remote, mountain village in Spain and owning probably the most dangerous cockerel in Europe, inspired Victoria to write “Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools”. Subsequent books in the Old Fools’ series continue to pop up.
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Sabina Ostrowska
Sabina Ostrowska also known as Sabina O. is the author behind the bestselling 'New Life in Andalusia' series. Enjoying life among the sunny olive groves of southern Spain, Sabina crafts her narratives with a vivid sense of place. 'Shadows of Serenity,' her latest work, marks the debut of her cozy travel mystery series. Here, she invites readers on armchair adventures that span the globe. So pour a glass of your favorite wine and delve into these enthralling mysteries.
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Beth Haslam
Beth Haslam was brought up on a country estate in Wales. Deep in the countryside, her childhood was spent either on horseback, helping the gamekeepers raise pheasants, or out sailing. After a serious car crash in 1991, she set up her own consultancy business.
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As semi-retirement beckoned, Beth and her husband, Jack, decided to buy a second home in France. This became a life-changing event where computers and mobile phones swapped places with understanding the foibles of the French, and tackling the language. Beth is now occupied as never before. Raising and saving animals, writing, and embracing everything that rural France has to offer; she’s loving it! -
Mary-Jane Houlton
How do you describe who you are? I find it impossible as we are all so many things. I have worked as marketing executive for a large multi-national company, but also run my own business as a landscape designer. I have had many different careers but most enjoyed being a Pilates instructor and a travel writer. Some of my ventures have been successful, some less so.
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The best years of my life were spent on a small-holding in Wales, but then I gave it all up for an even better life on a boat in France. I have reached the slightly terrifying age of 64 and I am now happier than I have ever been.
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Annemarie Rawson
Annemarie is a New Zealander who collects new 'best friends' wherever she goes. In her 50's she and her husband, Steve, packed up the house, rented it out, kissed her family and friends goodbye and moved 12,000 km to South West France to work as estate managers for several private families -- swapping corporate, city life for animal husbandry and the French countryside.
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Annemarie loves people, animals, travelling, interior design and creating delicious food to welcome people into her home and at her table.
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Stephen Malins
Steve is a travel writer and memoirist, and occasional photographer.
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He was born, like many, in London, and now lives in Melbourne with his wife, and three teenagers, so he is an unpaid uber-driver amongst many things.
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Jane Smyth
Jane was born in Birmingham, and remains a Brummie at heart although she has lived in north Worcestershire for many years. She worked as a lecturer at a college in the West Midlands for most of her career, starting out teaching secretarial subjects and having to re-educate herself every few years as technology and computers gradually took over. By the end of her career, she held the position of Senior Teacher and lecturer in IT. She also has qualifications in photography and fitness instruction, the latter she no longer uses, saying she much prefers being a participant rather than the teacher. Happily married, she and her husband Rob have two children, three granddaughters and two fox terriers. They share their time between the UK and their
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Rosie Meleady
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In her 'A Rosie Life In Italy' series, Rosie writes about buying a 22 roomed derelict villa in Italy by accident, renovating it and existing in Italy.
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Andy C Wareing
Along with many like-minded souls, 2020 was the year I finally broke free of the constraints of life in corporate America. Fueled by a renewed passion and creativity I decided to pursue my new life as a full-time author.
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Originally from Southport in England my wife, Paula, and I, lived and worked in the USA for 15 wonderful years, and then moved to Spain to enjoy a quiet life in the endless sunshine of the Mediterranean. Instead, we ended up embroiled in the tribulations of the pandemic. I wrote and self-published my first book “Mistakes Were Made” after that (mis) adventure.
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Sharon Hayhurst
Sharon is a travel memoir writer who uses her customary wicked sense of humour to share her stories. She is a kindergarten teacher with a special talent for attracting trouble and falling over her own feet. Sharon lives on a rural property in New Zealand with her husband, Geoffrey, and an assortment of animals. Sharon’s writing draws the reader in, making them feel as if they are along for the ride, with plenty of laughs along the way.
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Lindy Viandier
Lindy Viandier is the author of 'Damson Skies and Dragonflies' and 'Mellow Mists and Walnut wine' which each chart a year in her life at Les Libellules, the 300-year-old house in the Burgundy countryside that she and her husband are lovingly restoring.
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Lindy's love of nature shines through in her writing and her books transport the reader to the heart of rural France.
Before moving to France, Lindy has worked as an advertising feature writer for a North Wales newspaper, and as a freelance short stories for various UK magazines. She has also had articles on language and culture featured in French Property News.
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Liza Grantham
Liza Grantham was born in 1965 in the East Midlands brewery town of Burton-on-Trent. After gaining a BA (Hons) in Linguistics, French and Hindi from the University of York and a PGCE from Derbyshire College of Higher Education she returned to her hometown where she taught at Anglesey Primary School for sixteen years. In 1997 she was awarded an MBA with distinction in Educational Management from the University of Nottingham. After meeting her now husband Gary she moved to Las Palmas, Gran Canaria to teach in a British school. In 2011 the couple moved to a remote hamlet in rural Galicia where they raise chickens, grow vegetables and expect the unexpected in their idyllic yet highly unpredictable rural life.
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Sally Jane Smith
Sally Jane Smith is the author of Unpacking for Greece (June 2023) and Repacking for Greece (April 2024). She has lived on five continents and visited thirty-four countries, but she gives credit to Greece for turning her into a writer.
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Sally’s story of her great-great-grandmother’s extraordinary life appears in the anthology Itchy Feet: Tales of Travel and Adventure. Her exploration of travel and grief is included in the Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2022.
Sally's first book, Unpacking for Greece, was selected by Greek News Agenda (a Greek government website) as Book of the Month for July 2023, and was awarded first place in the 'Prose in English' category of the Greek-Australian Cultural League 2024 Book Awards.
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Andy C Wareing
Along with many like-minded souls, 2020 was the year I finally broke free of the constraints of life in corporate America. Fueled by a renewed passion and creativity I decided to pursue my new life as a full-time author.
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John Manuel
John Manuel and his half-Greek wife moved from the UK to Rhodes in 2005. Since then he has written five factual books about his visits to Greece over a period of four decades, plus his years of living on Rhodes. He has also written eight novels. John and his wife are keen recyclers, walkers and readers. They are both passionate about gardening, and the natural world too.
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John Manuel kept a blog about life on Rhodes called 'Ramblings From Rhodes', and it has thousands of regular followers all over the world. Since moving to Crete in 2019, he's started a new blog called 'Accretions.'
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Marjory McGinn
Marjory McGinn is a Scottish-born journalist who has worked on newspapers in the UK, and Australia where she spent some of her childhood.
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In 2010, she set off for an adventure in the rural Mani, Greece, with her husband and their famously mad Jack Russell dog, Wallace. The adventure lasted four years and is the basis for her 4 travel memoirs: Things Can Only Get Feta, Homer's Where the Heart Is, A Scorpion In The Lemon Tree, A Donkey On The Catwalk. She has also published two novels also set in Greece: A Saint For The Summer and How Greek Is Your Love? in a 2-book series.
Her latest book is a humorous travel memoir with various locations, Wake Me Up For The Elephants.
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Dawn Fallon
I was born in Birmingham to working-class parents in 1959. I worked hard at my music studies and obtained a music degree, graduating in 1980. I joined the Civil Service in January 1981 as a Clerical Officer, eventually gaining a promotion to work as a VAT Control Officer. I currently live in Devon and am a hotel pianist.
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Jules Brown
I've been a pro travel writer for over 30 years, writing Rough Guides and other stuff, and living in places from Sicily to New Zealand. You might even have had one of my guidebooks along for the ride in your travel bag - in which case, happy to have helped!
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I also blog at www.julestoldme.com, sharing travel stories, travel-writing tips, videos and inspiring destinations - see you there, and happy travels. -
Emma Scattergood
Self-confessed travel addict and cancer survivor Emma Scattergood draws on life’s curveballs to pen her non-fiction adventure books.
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From her 2022 diagnosis of stage 3 breast cancer emerged My Breast Cancer Adventure: Or What Can Happen Following a Breast Cancer Diagnosis, while a life-altering accident to her husband brought about travelogues Itchy Feet & Bucket Lists: A Global Adventure and Bucket Lists and Walking Sticks: An Unexpected Adventure.
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Peter Barber
Peter Barber is the award-winning, bestselling author of Greek travel memoirs, including A Parthenon on our Roof and A Parthenon in Pefki.
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A native Londoner, he lives between England and Greece. Marrying his fiery Greek wife Alexandra not only made him part of a Greek family but also immersed him in Greek life and culture. Fascinated by the people, history and traditions, Peter dove in head first. He wished to be among the locals and experience Greek life first-hand.
From his cultural and language flubs to the trials and tribulations of life in Greece, Peter sometimes got more than he bargained for. But with his signature wit, he found humor in their escapades. And, as he learned more about Greece’s history, his new family, and modern life i -
Mary-Jane Houlton
How do you describe who you are? I find it impossible as we are all so many things. I have worked as marketing executive for a large multi-national company, but also run my own business as a landscape designer. I have had many different careers but most enjoyed being a Pilates instructor and a travel writer. Some of my ventures have been successful, some less so.
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The best years of my life were spent on a small-holding in Wales, but then I gave it all up for an even better life on a boat in France. I have reached the slightly terrifying age of 64 and I am now happier than I have ever been.
The one passion that has been a constant throughout my life has been writing and so perhaps that is who I am at heart - a writer.
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Annemarie Rawson
Annemarie is a New Zealander who collects new 'best friends' wherever she goes. In her 50's she and her husband, Steve, packed up the house, rented it out, kissed her family and friends goodbye and moved 12,000 km to South West France to work as estate managers for several private families -- swapping corporate, city life for animal husbandry and the French countryside.
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Annemarie loves people, animals, travelling, interior design and creating delicious food to welcome people into her home and at her table.
After a stint back in New Zealand, Annemarie decided (at 60) it was time for another adventure and did exactly the same thing, packing up the house but this time moving to London. Two and a half years later they have explored more of London -
Stephen Malins
Steve is a travel writer and memoirist, and occasional photographer.
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He was born, like many, in London, and now lives in Melbourne with his wife, and three teenagers, so he is an unpaid uber-driver amongst many things.
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Jane Smyth
Jane was born in Birmingham, and remains a Brummie at heart although she has lived in north Worcestershire for many years. She worked as a lecturer at a college in the West Midlands for most of her career, starting out teaching secretarial subjects and having to re-educate herself every few years as technology and computers gradually took over. By the end of her career, she held the position of Senior Teacher and lecturer in IT. She also has qualifications in photography and fitness instruction, the latter she no longer uses, saying she much prefers being a participant rather than the teacher. Happily married, she and her husband Rob have two children, three granddaughters and two fox terriers. They share their time between the UK and their
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Lindy Viandier
Lindy Viandier is the author of 'Damson Skies and Dragonflies' and 'Mellow Mists and Walnut wine' which each chart a year in her life at Les Libellules, the 300-year-old house in the Burgundy countryside that she and her husband are lovingly restoring.
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Lindy's love of nature shines through in her writing and her books transport the reader to the heart of rural France.
Before moving to France, Lindy has worked as an advertising feature writer for a North Wales newspaper, and as a freelance short stories for various UK magazines. She has also had articles on language and culture featured in French Property News.
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Alison Ripley Cubitt
Alison Ripley Cubitt started her writing career at age nine by winning first prize in a writing competition with a pony book.
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Some years later, she left New Zealand with the ability to make a white sauce without a recipe, carry three plates at once, and ride a horse (though not at the same time).
Dreaming of becoming a copywriter, she landed a job as the receptionist in an advertising agency in Sydney that made the TV series Mad Men’s work culture look tame.
But the lure of London proved too hard to resist, and she left Australia. Landing in London at the right time, she got her break in television production and lasted 15 years, working on Channel 4’s anarchic The Big Breakfast and at Walt Disney and the BBC.
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Shirley Read-Jahn
Shirley Read-Jahn was born during World War II and educated in England before becoming a hippy and living in an ancient Roman burial tomb in Matala, Crete. She went on to take up many different colourful careers, including swimwear model, interpreter, landscape gardener, paralegal and events organiser. She also co-founded the highly-successful San Francisco Jazz Festival as well as running her own landscape business in the United States.
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Carrie Riseley
Carrie grew up in Tasmania, Australia but spent her youth living in Melbourne, Japan and England. She has travelled to 46 countries to date, and kept a travel journal for every single one.
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Carrie started doing this when, just before her first travelling experience at age 18, family members gave her an empty notebook to use as a travel journal. Carrie found she loved writing about what she was seeing and experiencing so much that she filled the notebook in only 3 weeks. She bought more notebooks, and just kept going.
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Cinda Adams Brooks
Cinda grew up with her identical twin, Linda, and three brothers in East Africa where their parents served as medical missionaries. Her nursing, health education, and law enforcement careers combined for a rich twenty-year career teaching fitness, wellness, defensive tactics, and survival at the Texas Game Warden Training Academy. She currently pursues her mission -- to unleash the champion in people -- through her volunteer work in the Discovery Program and her connections with people that cross her path.
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Cinda lives near Austin, Texas, with her husband, Stanley, and Rhodesian ridgeback puppy, Buddy. Among her interests are travel and competitive sports. She is a gold medalist in the World Police and Fire Games in biathlon (running and pist -
Catherine Berry
It got to me. Living in France was supposed to have a beginning and an end. It nearly did have an end in a way that I could never have imagined, but now it can’t. I belong amidst the bewildering complexities and incongruences of French life, and wherever I am, for as long as I am, this will not change.
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Nothing from my Australian upbringing pre-supposed this French fascination. My first steps in the language were coincidental, and it was probably luck that saw one of the young, groovy teachers allocated to my beginner’s French class at school.
I enjoyed writing, but was gently encouraged into maths and science subjects, where non-essential creative writing was relegated. Thereafter, I adopted an academic approach to getting through an undergra -
Gregory E. Buford
Greg Buford has lived in the US, Dominican Republic, Japan, India, France, Cambodia, Switzerland, and Turkmenistan. His first memoir, Kept: An American Househusband in India, won the PNWA Zola Award, and his novel, Making Ghosts Dance, was both a Montaigne Medal and Eric Hoffer Award finalist. Learn more and keep track of Greg at gregorybuford.com.
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Judy Yorke
Judy Yorke is a journalist, copywriter, editor and writing tutor who loves to travel.
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Some of her fondest memories are of interrail holidays taken as a student. She loaded her rucksack with too many books, stayed in youth hostels and lived on bread, cheese and ice-cream.
Last summer, she interrailed again, this time with her husband and two teenage sons. She loved it so much she wrote a book about it.
Her first book, Crowded Platforms and Window Seats, is for people who wonder what interrailing is really like.
With a chapter on her first trip in 1988, it's also for those who interrailed themselves back in the day and would like to reminisce.
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Karen Telling
Karen and her husband Nick, left his home town of Crowthorne in Berkshire in 2003, heading for Portugal, with no idea of what they were going to do to earn a living. They took their two dogs with them, not realising they would go on to rescue many more cats and dogs. They encounter challenges along the way including Karen’s life changing surgery in Lisbon, but also meet people who treat them with huge kindness.
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A heart-warming slice of life from an author with a brilliant eye for both the absurd and the humane as she shares the reality of living their dream. -
Rory Moulton
RORY MOULTON IS A writer, publisher and entrepreneur who lives in the Colorado Rockies with his wife and son. When away from his desk, Rory’s passionate about travel, woodworking, museums and the great outdoors.
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Rory believes travel is most rewarding when done independently on a ground-level budget. Focus on experiential — not checklist — travel. Eat like a local. Stay in family run hotels, hostels or Airbnbs. Meet a local family. Picnic in the parks. Take overnight trains. See the major cultural sights, but also be spontaneous. In short: Ditch the all-inclusive, find an affordable flight to a foreign country, fill a carry-on backpack and off you go!
Catch up with Rory on Instagram @rorymoulton. He’d love to hear about your travels. -
Robert W. Norris
Robert W. Norris was born and raised in Humboldt County, California. He was a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War and served time in a military prison for refusing his order to fight. In his twenties, he roamed across the United States, went to Europe twice, and made one journey around the world. In 1983, he landed in Japan, where he became a professor at a private university, spent two years as the dean of students, and retired as a professor emeritus. He is the author of three novels, a novella, a memoir, and over twenty research papers on teaching. He and his wife live near Fukuoka, Japan.
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Libo Cao Meyers
Libo Cao Meyers is an accomplished engineering executive who has been with Apple since 2011. With a passion for enriching people’s lives, she serves on multiple boards and is dedicated to creating innovative products and meaningful services that help individuals reach their full potential.
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Despite being diagnosed with polio as an infant while growing up in rural parts of Northern China, Libo Cao Meyers refused to let her disability hold her back. At the age of twenty-four, she immigrated alone to the United States and achieved an incredible feat by completing her MS and Ph.D. simultaneously in two different engineering fields from Ohio University within four years. Her tech profession began in Silicon Valley in early 2004, where she has thr -
E.J. Bauer
I was born in Queensland, Australia and lived my first twelve years in the country. My family moved to Brisbane before I started high school and I graduated from university with a degree in speech pathology. I accepted a position at large regional hospital in New South Wales and I still live in the area over 40 years later.
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I am happily married, a mother of two, grandmother of five and devoted assistant to one very bossy tortoiseshell cat named Lucy. My career in speech pathology eventually morphed into the totally unrelated field of retail management in a university science centre and planetarium.
Travel has always been a focus and yes – there was always a bucket list. I had many things I intended to do “someday” but that was always in my ha -
Robert Fear
Born in Leicester in 1955, Robert's family moved to Surrey when he was 11. He was educated at Reigate Grammar School. After this he worked in a bank in the city for several years before getting the travel bug. Fred, a nickname he got at school, stuck throughout his travels and has remained with him to this day. His travels took him to Ibiza for the summer of 1977, hitch-hiking around Europe in 1978 and the USA and Canada in 1979. During this time he also settled and worked in Germany. Fred's Diary 1981 was written during the 158 days he spent travelling around Asia.
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These days Robert is happily settled in Eastbourne, East Sussex where he lives with his wife and three cats. He works as a software consultant and has been able to combine work -
Don Hughes
Don Hughes was born in Johnson City, Tennessee, before moving at an early age to a Chicago suburb called Lake Zurich. After graduating high school, he received a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from the University of Illinois, followed by a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
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He began working on political campaigns in Illinois right after college, starting out as a volunteer by walking precincts, stuffing
envelopes, and attending fundraisers.
Eventually he worked his way up to paid staff jobs on the Senator Charles Percy reelection campaign in 1978 and the George H.W. Bush campaign for president in 1980. The highlight of his political career was being elected at