Big Girl Pants – Let’s Dance It’s quarter past six on a Sunday morning in late February, and my eyes are heavy with lack of sleep as I clatter the laptop keys in Iggy the Hymer motorhome. It’s an hour until sunrise; Marley and I have already been for a...
Begin Again, Begin Again – CPTSD, the Great Struggle (warning: this post concerns a subject that some readers may find distressing) The sunshine of this morning seems like a memory of a different world as I listen to the heavy rain blattering overhead in the...
Trurnaround – New Directions Once More It’s six a.m. on Friday the third of June, and the air is full of the sound of birds welcoming the new day. Iggy the Hymer motorhome and I are the only ones awake in our little spot in Camping Lac Vert Plage, on the banks...
Seven Days in Bulgaria – Part One On Friday, eleventh of December, Jay, Marley and I set off from Marikostinovo for our new life in Miladinovsti. It was five months to the day since we had left Scotland back in July, and so much had happened and changed since...
An Awfully Big Bulgarian Adventure Life, as the saying goes, is an awfully big adventure. A deep, swirling pool of unknown, unseen new moments. Waiting… just round that next bend in the river. Yes. That bend! That one right there. The one beside that old Hymer...