Following my dreams
It’s now been nine months since I stepped out of my conditioned 9-5 life, feeling safe, but stuck in a life that did not fulfill me. So after travelling 13,000 miles in my van from England to Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Spain & Portugal I thought I would do an…
Nusa Dua has been created as a high end tourist resort around the long sandy beaches with waves perfect for surfing, especially for beginners like me. You enter this area through gates and it has beautifully manicured lawns, trees and designer roundabouts. I was staying in a cheap hotel just outside the gates! So needed…
I flew with Garuda airlines from London Heathrow on December 27th at 6.30am, which meant that I needed to travel to the airport the evening of Boxing Day. I dropped off the van at my friend’s farm, got a taxi to Gatwick airport and then got the National Express coach to Heathrow arriving at 10.20pm….
I finally made it to Portugal on Friday 13th December and was headed to Faro airport to pick up my friend Raimon. He was going to be spending several days with me travelling along the Algarve coast up to Lisbon. What I forgot was that when you cross the border from Spain into Portugal you…
I was sad to be leaving the beautiful beach of Roquetas de Mar and the beautiful ‘tree of life’ but after two weeks of staying within a comfort zone it was time for me to go exploring once again. I had the most amazing sunset to send me on my way. I only recommend staying…
So after driving 1297 miles down through Sweden, trying to escape the snow, I caught the ferry from Helsingborg Sweden to Helsingor, Denmark. There was no way I was crossing on the Oresund Bridge. I know that I have faced my fears with bridges and heights in Norway but this one I was not quite…
Thursday 26th September – The day had arrived that I felt I could no longer put off leaving Norway if I was to be ahead of the snow. I had already seen snowfall upon waking one morning last week when in the mountains of Northern Norway and I really was not prepared for snow as…
Please visit my YouTube channel mindfulvanlife. There are multiple vlogs on my whole two months in Norway from Bergen to Tromso, via the Lofoten Islands, wild camping all the way. Norway is the most incredible place and I loved every moment I was there, even when it snowed! I was very sad to cross the…
So, after 10 days of travelling through Europe I sailed from Hirtshalls in Northern Denmark and reached the shores of Norway. It didn’t take long to start seeing the breathtaking beauty of this country. Little did I know what was yet to come! My last youtube video (mindfulvanlife) documents the journey as far as the Magma Geopark…
This last two weeks has been a whirl of catching up with friends, but also trying not to compromise my new way of living too much. It does feel nicely familiar dropping into friend’s lives, but knowing it won’t be long before I am saying farewell again. A lovely walk along the Wey & Arun…
