Let Sleeping Dogs Lie - the book



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Who would have expected that finding a postcard in a bike shop would change a person’s life? But that’s just what happened to me. The postcard was advertising a 4000km trip by bike from Paris to Istanbul over seven weeks during a European summer. A veritable expedition, or so it said, across eight countries following one of the Orient Express routes of times past. It didn’t take me long to decide to pack my bags and join.

Readers regardless of whether they ride a bike, will be engaged by the Paris Istanbul tale in my book Let Sleeping Dogs Lie as it is not only a story of a bike ride through fabulous European history, but a tale of infant adoption and the subsequent rather strange relationship with my adoptive parents; my early marriage and violent divorce; the troubles of being a single parent; and going in and out of relationships in an attempt to heal psychic loss - universal themes in the lives of many people.

As a kid, I rode to primary school through rough paddocks, dodging bob-tailed lizards, swooping magpies and potholes. Then nothing much until 2005 (aged 53) when I decided to ride in the Great Victorian Bike Ride, a ride I have done every year since. 

Since the Paris Istanbul trip in 2008 I have also ridden from St Petersburg to Venice (2010) and from Copenhagen to Barcelona (2012) with friends met ‘on the road’.


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