This week, it’s the turn of Mike Blue, the author of The Anatomy of Escape: an unconventional adventure, to take a turn in the Thursday Throng. Mike describes himself as “an accountant trapped on the corporate treadmill” who now lives on a bus in the dense jungles of Northern Sumatra.
Hi, and this week I’d like to introduce you all to Renata Lubinsky, author of Around Seattle in 80 Dates. After thirty-two years in one relationship, Renata divorced her husband and started a journey that she crafted on a daily basis, by using online dating sites.
This week, we have writer Catherine Berry on the Thursday Throng. Catherine was introduced to the French language at high school in Australia, but had no idea that this would dictate many of her life choices.  Her French love affair re-emerged several years later due to a series of lucky coincidences. These ultimately led her and…
HI everyone, and this week it’s the turn of Stef Smulders, an expat living in Italy with a lot to say about living in a foreign country. Stef, his partner Nico and their dog Saar emigrated to Italy to start a new life and set up their B&B Villa I Due Padroni. They sold their home, left…
This week I’d like to welcome a woman with a wonderful name to the Thursday Throng. Ivanka lives in Italy and writes one of my favourite types of book – the alternative travel guide. Those who’ve been with me for a while know that I adore getting insights into culture and countries from the comfort…
I’d like to say hello to Alan Parks, the author of fly on the wall, tell it like it really is living abroad in Spain book called ‘Seriously Mum, What’s an Alpaca?’. He’s also offering a free ebook copy of this funny and alternative look at the life outside the UK to three people. To…
Today we have a wonderful giveaway of TWO HARDCOVER books from Apple Gidley. Apple is the author of Expat Life Slice by Slice, a wonderful memoir of life in the expat fast lane. She is an Anglo-Australian known to thousands as ExpatApple thanks to her popular blog at the Daily Telegraph who truly believes that…
It’s Thursday, it’s nine o’clock and I’d like to welcome Matthew Hirtes author of Going Local in Gran Canaria into the studio today as my guest on the Thursday Throng author interview slot. The full title of the book is Going Local in Gran Canaria: how to turn a holiday destination into a home and…
Today I am lucky enough to have not one, but three, eCopies (Kindle, Nook, etc ….) of Tony Slater’s book ‘That Bear Ate My Pants‘ to giveaway in my Thursday Throng Interview. Just the title was enough to hook my interest and the email he sent me describing the book had me salivating with anticipation….
It’s Thursday, it’s nine o’clock and I’d like to welcome Joe Cawley author of More Ketchup than Salsa: Confessions of a Tenerife Barman into the studio today as my guest on the Thursday Throng author interview slot. Joe hails from the UK but now lives in Tenerife and is an award-winning travel writer whose work…
