Category Archives: background

Anniversary

Four years ago yesterday Brian landed at the Arlanda airport north of Stockholm. He came out in the arrival hall with the biggest smile on his face and I could hardly breathe because of all the butterflies. We had fought through a tear filled Romeo & Juliet situation for months and months, finished off by […]

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The Long Way Down

A while back we sat glued to the couch watching Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman travel around the world on motorbikes as one of our tv channel showed a rerun of the documentary. We knew they had also done a trip from Europe to Africa and just recently we managed to get hold of the […]

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Rewind: Making the decision

Early after Brian and I started dating we realized we both had the dream of making a longer trip. We talked about it off and on and started telling people we wanted to do it but I don’t think anybody took it too seriously. Neither did we, it was nothing more than a dream. But […]

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