Hello again!

We are still living in and out of campervans, and still travelling full time. Since late 2025 that has been in New Zealand, in a little yellow van that we loved so much we put it into storage when we ran out of time in NZ, with plans to return in late 2027. Right now, now we are on our way back to Europe, to catch the end of this scorching hot summer everyone keeps talking about.

Having relied on social media for keeping in touch ever since we were trekking in Nepal two years ago, even that very basic summary of recent life will be news to most of you. I am finding that the Meta algorithm's preference for promoted content and posts from outside my circle means I spend less and less time on Facebook and Instagram. In turn, I have wholly failed to keep my New Year's promise to be a better correspondent, and begun to doubt whether simply posting more would actually reach anyone I care about anyway.

So I'm changing it up. I have a plan to focus an old fashioned email update, which I'll also publish as a blog and on social links for those whose inboxes are already unmanageable. My goal is to write weekly, and to circulate at the start of the following week - 'Mail on Monday'. The title is aspirational rather than promissory; timing will probably continue to be random; but I'll appraoch my updates with a sense of structure (and a deadline, which always helps).

If the plan works, you'll be able to find this in your inbox, in your social feed, or on the web as suits you best. If you would like to get the occasional email at the same address where this one landed, then there's nothing to do. If you'd rather they go somewhere else, arrive less frequently (or not at all), or stay in touch via a different channel then you can do all that here: Update Settings.

Lots of love,
Martyn