Hot Pools, Paua Shells & a Pandemic: Travels around the world
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February 2020. Lisa, husband Stewart, and Mum Iris, set off from their homes in the remote northwest of Spain, looking for another adventure.
While Iris holidays in France, Lisa and Stewart once again use their building skills to Workaway around New Zealand’s beautiful North Island – meeting new friends, and discovering old ones they didn’t know, as serendipity follows them across the globe and home to a much-changed Galicia.
Meanwhile, Mum is stranded twelve hundred kilometres away across closed borders – with no way back.
After a month travelling the world, can Slugger and Slammer survive three months in one of the severest lockdowns in Europe, rescue Mum, and get Los Tres together again?
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Additional information
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| File size | 3172 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 354 pages |
by Lyric
Lisa, i believe i have read all your books to date
. This one arrived on my kindle yesterday, and I’ve just finished it.
It was fabulous.
The travel memoir on the first half if the book took me around Bangkok and New Zealand which was so interesting and described so well that i felt i was actually there.
Then the pandemic !!!
Keep writing
by fabulouschrissie
When Lisa and husband Stewart (S) drop mum Iris off in France at Lisa’s brother’s house, they promise they will be back in a month’s time to take her home to Galicia. But it is February 2020….
I love Lisa’s writing. She is a born storyteller, and has an incredible way with words, drawing you into the story, and making you want to keep on reading.
Traveling again as both Workawayers and tourists, this follows on from their adventures in Bento Boxes, Boomerangs, and Red Foxes, although they are just visiting New Zealand this time.
Lisa’s descriptions of their travels, combined with footnotes about the progress of the Covid-19 pandemic, bring back memories of the time the world changed, and we didn’t have any idea of what was going to happen to us.
This is really a book of two halves: part one is fun, travel and working adventures. Travelogue as well as memoir; Lisa weaves in historical facts and tourist information as part of the story.
The second half is back home in Galicia, dealing with lockdown restrictions, and the frustrations of trying to get Iris back home from France, but also with an appreciation of the lifestyle they have.
I loved it. Both the travel and lockdown parts are written beautifully, and made me quite emotional at times. I confess to shedding a few tears at some parts, and being on the edge of my seat, wondering what was going to happen next.
I can’t recommend this book enough. If you’ve read Lisa’s previous books, you will love this one. If you haven’t (why not??) you can read this as a stand alone.
by Dink
I’ve read all Lisa’s books & always look forward to the next. This was and wonderful read. Enjoyed the experience in Thailand & New Zealand. Reading about the pandemic was so emotional.
Another brilliant book I hope that wasn’t the end of your story. Thank you