Road Map We had a beautiful adventure, volunteering in Daruvar and exploring the Northern part of Croatia which has a small fraction of the tourists seen along the country’s Southern coast. Croatia is small with only 4 million citizens but its landscape, culture and history are incredibly varied. Volunteering Weekends Road Trip Next After a…
Kos Volunteering Things can go badly wrong on this nomadic journey of ours, but nothing so far has made us more uncomfortable than our experience of volunteering for a refugee charity on the islands. With some of our own close family having been refugees, we were keen to help those suffering from famine in Sudan,…
Volunteering in an Ashram The kids were so energetic. Even after lots of gardening, learning and football, they would hand wash their clothes, which involved a lot of vigorous (and we suspect competitive, from the noise) beating of the fabric. The ashram has a washing machine, but this activity gives the kids another way to…
Volunteering for Sristi Foundation We volunteered for 6 weeks for an extraordinary charity, based in Tamil Nadu, which cared for those with intellectual disabilities. The director is a brave, brilliant and beautiful man who has developed a team of 40+ with values of respect, kindness and courage to make a difference. Over 10 years, he…
London When we returned from India at the end of May, we stayed in London for most of June to see family and friends and met this brilliant cat during a pet sit in the very hip area of Dalston, before then spending two months in Finland, Sweden and Denmark. Finland Sweden Denmark Next Seeing…
Invitation Dress Code As part of the wedding invitation, we were given a dress code which was partly impressive and exciting and partly anxiety inducing especially as our smart clothes had been put into storage. We were just going to have to re-buy beautiful clothes once we arrived. Oh dear! Mehendi The Mehendi ritual of…
Florida Stopover Volunteering in Guatemala Weekend Trips Trip to Antigua, Guatemala Guatemala Appendix Next First back to Paris and London, then onto Southern Netherlands and then another trip to India.
Goat Herding in the Negev Charities Family and Friends On the Road Food Next After a short trip back to the UK and France, we will spend January to March in Florida and Central America.
London Helsinki Tallinn Munich Next After spending a few days soon in France and London, we will be going to Israel for three months. We will start our adventure in the Negev Desert, where we will be learning how to herd goats.
UK and France California Jerez, Spain Next Back to the UK for a couple of weeks, then Helsinki in August and Munich in September.