Hitch-hiking from Paris to Bali with extremely limited funds and a total ignorance of Visa requirements for the countries in between!
After being beaten up, caught in a sand-storm in the desert, dyssentry, and meeting incredible people, I made it - but it took me a whole year.
I've been vegetarian ever since and my outlook on life was utterly changed as a result of this journey of both body and soul.
Lady Lord Mayor reads Lucy & The Lord Mayor Show.
The Lord Mayor Show is a landmark event in London's annual calendar, held on the second Saturday of November. It is one of, if not, the oldest and greatest unrehearsed precessions in the world. Lucy & The Lord Mayor Show is a story written and illustrated by David Williams. It records such a day enjoyed by a young girl and her mother.
When a catastrophic solar storm brings about the collapse of modern civilization, an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath. Once-bright skies are now dark. Planes have plummeted to the ground. The systems of modern life have crumbled. With their stocked larders and stores of supplies, the Amish are unaffected at first. But as the English (the Amish name for all non-Amish people) become more and more desperate, they begin to invade Amish farms, taking whatever they want and unleashing unthinkable violence on the peaceable community. Seen through the diary of an Amish farmer named Jacob as he tries to protect his family and his way of life, When the English Fall examines the idea of peace in the face of deadly chaos: Should members of a nonviolent society defy their beliefs and take up arms to defend themselves? And if they don't, can they survive?
This is Gypsy's true life story written in her own words. Only a few weeks old, Gypsy was left in a box outside a petshop on the Greek island of Crete. Rescued by David, she spends her first year learning about beaches, olives and Reiki. David then decides to move to a tiny, almost uninhabited island. Gypsy goes with him. She learns to catch crabs and live on beans and fishheads! One year later, Gypsy hitch-hikes with David for 8 days to Germany. After settling in with Petra and her 2 cats, Gypsy decides to write her autobiography. Gypsy writes about her love for the 2 humans in her life, her experiences and adventures all with an unusual depth of feeling. Gypsy lived every second of her short life to the full.
