‘Sahara’ is out
It seems a little as if it has taken forever - but I finally got posted a copy of Sahara, my new book, last week. It officially goes into stores in the first week of October. I know there has been a dreadfully long gap in posts. I have taken some time out to do some different things, and this post is coming to you from my hometown of Mansfield. I have spent the last few months here, working on Mt ...
Where it sits just now
Things have been ticking over quietly amidst the usual hubbub of pitching for more sponsorship and trying to iron out logistics. The region of Algeria, Libya and Egypt remains uncertain - particularly Algeria, and my plans remain in flux as a result, although I feel quite certain that I will get back in one form or another. I have been writing, and speaking, and planning, and enjoying all of those things. Slow Journey South seems to be going well, although I ...
Algeria!
Finally, I have a new plan - and my walk is happening again. Oh, thank god. Niger is out. Finished, Kaput, do not pass go and collect your two hundred dollars OR one's camels. But - as there always is - looks like I have found an alternative. Algeria, which was politically not an option when I first began organising this walk, has become one now. Although it will mean missing a section of Northern Niger, I can begin my walk again ...
Lachlan Prouse
Some of you may remember a cycling gentleman that I met up with in Gao, Mali, last year, by the name of Lachlan Prouse. A fellow Australian, Lachlan had at that point already completed an incredible trip through over fifty countries, including Iran and Afghanistan - this is him here, with my good self. Well, last week, Lachie turned up, still on two wheels, at our house in the Dandenongs - having landed in Perth some time ago and taken a ...
A new Year, a new perspective…
This has been the longest break my blog has ever had. I guess that I was holding on so tight last year, that I just needed to give myself a break; and I am happy to say that having done so, it feels like a whole new world out there. Firstly, to those who knew him – Frank Walshe, our Dad, died on the 10th of January, at home in Cornwall. He lived well and ...
update….
I read back over my last post before I wrote this one, and I wondered: where do I start? It is so difficult, sometimes, to explain all of the mental twists and turns one takes in coming to a decision. Sometimes I read back over this blog and think that it is nothing more than a sketch, leaving out all of the intricacies life throws us. But then - that is what books are for, I guess, so in the ...
where to go from here
When I am back in Australia - or the UK - I know that my posts are frustratingly sporadic. This is often because I feel as if what I have to say is pretty boring when I am not walking; and also because I don't like to make everyone party to the million small struggles that occur as I try to get the walk back up and running. But I think a full update might be due.I have been planning, ...
ABC Radio Melbourne
I need to apologise for the wrong information given about Radio Shropshire - although the interview took place, unfortunately the times were different than those stated. Hopefully I will get a copy up on the site soon that you can listen to. In the meantime, this coming Friday, 10th August, I am on ABC radio here in Melbourne - on the Jon Faine program. The link to listen is www.abc.net.au/melbourne/mornings/conversation/htm, and I am on between 11-12am. This is simply a quick ...
media coverage
Just to update you - today (Sunday 29th July) I have an article in the Australian Sunday Herald Sun magazine, in Melbourne, and the Sydney Telegraph, titled "Desert Queen". Yep - don't laugh - I feel rather more peasant like than royalty when I am out there, but it makes for a fun title! I was on the radio on BBC Radio Shropshire yesterday, which was fun. I was having a glass of red in front of the fire at ...
Australia
This has taken me a while to get to - sorry. I guess that when I am not walking it feels as though I have nothing important to say; but then the walk keeps going, just from a distance!It has been wonderful to be back in Australia. Birkenstock began a publicity campaign before I returned, which has led to doing various media interviews (nothing mindblasting, never fear, just the local stuff) which has been a fun experience. After years of ...
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