So long sweet, sweet Italian chicken. Goodbye crisp lettuce leaves. Adios fresh cucumber and tomato slices. Au revoir squidgy baguette. For today, I ate what will likely be my last Sergio’s Italian chicken baguette for at least twelve months. Arrivederci! Ci vediamo l’anno prossimo!

I’m so excited about our plans to explore the world. But for how long will we be able to see all that there is to see now? I’m certainly not an eco-warrior and I don’t even consider myself to be particularly green. However, I am becoming increasingly concerned about our throwaway ethos here in the […]

We’re sorting through our possessions into piles: Take travelling, keep but store, sell, donate to charity store, recycle and, worst case, put into landfill (which we actively try to avoid). I’ve not found it that difficult to sort things into piles. Certainly far less of the mental tug-of-war and the “should I, shouldn’t I?” in-head […]

Two days ago, I posted a Gumtree.com advert for an old computer that I no longer need and have been lugging from house to house as I move around London. I gave it a couple of days to sell and, this morning, took the ‘pooter down to my local recycling centre. No sooner than I […]

Family and friends aside — who I’m obviously going to miss dearly — there are a number of things that are dear to me and that I reckon I will miss as we travel. Thought that I’d take a moment here to list them for posterity. My Oskimo slippers all the way from sunny South […]