MEMORIES AND MEMORABILIA: THE WAY THINGS WERE. Sitting by the side of the road in the pouring rain I can hear Cathy laughing. But worse than that, much worse, is the fact I can hear the words “I told you so” coming through loud and clear. Damn and triple damn. Nothing beats being confronted with [...]

Sometimes it is hard to know what to write at certain times in our lives. You see as I sit staring at the page nothing seems right in either order or content. Indeed, it feels as if the very meaning of the words are lost in their truest sense. But I know it is just [...]

The Ted Simon Foundation \ All \ My Father’s Voice Extract from Jupiter’s Travellers During their round-the-world motorcycle journey in 2009, Bernard Smith and Cathy Birchall (co-authors of the forthcoming “Touching the World: A Blind Woman, Two Wheels, and 25,000 Miles”) made a detour through Kanchanaburi Province in Thailand to seek out the infamous Bridge over the River Kwai. [...]

January 2012 – Newsletter #5 Greetings to all fellow lunatics and escaped ones, whether current, former, about to, or to people who maintain the dream in the recesses of their minds………….. Hello to everybody and a festive glass to you all on entering the brave new world of 2012. Many people over recent weeks have [...]

Current News A recent set of thoughts triggered this newsletter as light bulbs went off like little Christmas trees in my head after a ‘conversation’ on a social networking site. Each twinkle involved an understanding of something I had learned, experienced, or been fortunate to achieve on circling the world. In fact, all those little twinkling [...]

Current News Well isn’t it surprising how time goes past? It doesn’t seem a month since the last newsletter and yet here we are again! Over the last month we have stayed busy ‘fettling’ our manuscript for the book with the help of none other than the motorcyling author Ted Simon. Many other well known writers [...]

Current News And so the news is out and no longer are people all over the place going, ‘nudge, nudge’, or ‘who do you think it is?’ Yes, it is now official. Bernard has been selected by the Ted Simon Foundation as a Jupiter’s Traveller. In essence the foundation was set up to encourage; ‘…….those who adventure [...]

A Blind Woman, Two Wheels and 25,000 Miles. If you dare to dream. In the beginning It’s hard to know sometimes where to begin as this may well be somewhere other than at the start. So it is with this newsletter in many ways. We say this as we fell off the circuit for a [...]