Who are we?

Fondly known to his family as “Menace” – his naughty behaviour as a child, and his once long, black, curly hair and close resemblance to Dennis the Menace earned him the nickname!

A lifelong fan of Watford FC.

Has run 20+ marathons including his home town one in London, plus a couple of ultra-marathons, and not forgetting numerous triathlons.

Earliest travel memories are from family camping holidays in France.

We met as “mature students” back in 1995, in the days way before blogging was even a thing, at a “Bad Taste” party in Sheffield, England.  We still have the embarrassing photo to prove it!

We both had had a taste of travel long before meeting each other.  I lived and travelled in the USA and in South Africa, while Dave backpacked across Asia before ending up living in Australia for a year.

Our shared desire for adventure, and our appetite for travel was there from those early halcyon days.

We always knew there was more to life than the daily grind of work, and we knew we wanted a balance of work less, play more!

We put in the hard yards for a few years working all hours in London before we pulled the pin on city life, and during the first year of the new millennium we packed our bags and our tent for our first big trip as full-time travellers.

It was back then when we started blogging for the first time too! Read our blog post about our most recent return to blogging.

Anyway one trip led to another, we stopped and started, worked a bit, lived a bit, travelled a bit, and loved making life up as we went along.

That same philosphy applies today and we love going with the flow.  We grab every opportunity to travel that comes our way and we make the most of it.