About

Paula travels. Then she writes about it. She talks about it, too.

In 2004 she packed her life into a backpack and began walking from London. Three years later, she’d covered over 12000km on foot – 7000 of those through the Sahara with her own camel train. The walks became her first and second books.

Birkenstock

Birkenstock Australia came on board to support Paula during the second part of the Sahara trek, when Paula was suffering from plantar fasciitis, an inflammation of the tissue beneath the foot, which had resulted after months walking in flat nomad’s sandals.

  • May 6th, 2013

  • May 6th, 2013

  • April 18th, 2013

    Decide what you want to do Get up and do it!

  • April 18th, 2013

    During the time I was in the Moroccan Sahara, dinner every night was a variation on the same theme.  It was ‘Al Gamila’, quite literally ‘The Pot’.  Even though Al ...

  • April 16th, 2013

    Welcome to the new site! Blogging is something I’d more or less stopped doing. But lately I’ve been looking around my adopted home with new eyes  - something to do with ...

  • July 24th, 2012

    I downloaded a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey on Sunday night, after finding no less than eleven references to it in the pages of this week’s Sunday Times.  I ...

  • April 15th, 2012

    A post without photos for once – or maybe with just a few.  Mainly this post is for my own thoughts, and because I have come across something I find ...

  • April 13th, 2012

    There is a frog built into the plateresque facade of Salamanca University.  It seems a rather frivolous thing to adorn Spain's first University, and the third in Western Europe, but ...