Before I get started with proper travelling blogs (the next one will be about our first week travelling in Hong Kong ) I wanted to maybe make more of a statement with this one about how we have arrived at this point as a travelling family.

We wanted to say thank you to all of our friends who have helped us get to the point where we have left the country with a house packed up for rent and pets and belongings dispersed far and wide. So this is for all for you …. x

First of all, we want to say thank you to all of those who have taken part in the many send offs we have had – Early Hen Do’s, Coldplay concert’s, BBQ’s, drinking sessions and Last Suppers. We thoroughly enjoyed them all and although they may have delayed us in our packing plans so that…

A very intimate and engaging novel about a woman’s journey after death. The writing style involved the reader immediately through a close-up examination of the dead woman’s experiences and sensation, all of which are confusing to her and only gradually settle into making sense. I found this particularly accomplished, as it takes the reader right under the skin of the narrator.
Judging from the cover I expected this to be more girly than it turned out to be, but it felt almost like a psychological thriller at times, with plenty of excellent scenes as our heroine moves through life and death experiences and a thousand rooms.
I must confess that I flirted with spiritualism in the past and therefor took a particular interest in this book, finding much that agrees with various strands of spiritualism and similar philosophies. In that respect I would call the book well-researched or at least…