As he saw his 50th birthday approaching, Chris Brady realised things had to change. When his children wouldnt leave home, he and his wife did. This is the story of the huge gamble they took, uprooting themselves from the security of a job and home on the idyllic Waiheke Island (population 7000) in New Zealands Hauraki Gulf, and moving half way around the world to London (population, 12 million).
There Chris explored the UK and Europe with the passion and enthusiasm of a twenty-year old. As an historian, he delighted in finding everything from pre-historic ruins to twentieth century icons, most notably the Abbey Rd crossing!
And just to prove that old gits can do anything, after three years away, Chris and his wife came home in style. The book details their camping trip through the UK, their trip around Europe, and finally, their epic journey on the Trans-Siberian railway.
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Chris has been a secondary school History teacher, a husband for thirty-four years, a father of five, a Beatles fanatic, the founder and leader of the Blokes Liberation Front (a spectacularly unsuccessful political party), a cricketer of very minute ability, a milkman, a takeaways owner, and a very average golfer who once nearly got a hole in one.
In all of these adventures he has been accompanied, for better or worse, in richness and in poverty, by his long-suffering but magnificently loving wife, Joke, without whom…
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