Part three of the Near Varna series is complete

Released: Autumn – 2025.

The paperback pre-order is now open.

This 300+ page  book will still be free postage in the UK.

The Kindle and Audio versions will all hopefully be available early next year.

What’s it about?

Usual stuff, you know. Riding, travelling, drinking, observations, opinions, puns, fun and disasters. I could tell you more but don’t want to spoil it. Same diary format as the other eight books so pretty much what you would expect.

The Blurb (work in progress)

 Season three of early retirement in Bulgaria kicks off—because quitting real life once wasn’t enough.

You can move to a new country, buy more stuff, and even grow a beard of wisdom, but if your worldview doesn’t shift, you’re just a tourist with better insulation. If your mindset stays static, life won’t move forward—and the world will move on without you.

The morphine daze passed, perhaps the kidney stone did too. The Bulgarian winter began its slow surrender, snow melting into slush, whisky flowed freely, my powder got wet and audacious plans got muddier by the day. I rode my battle-worn Kawasaki KLR from the spotlight of the London Bike Show into a freezing trans-European fatal February finale.

Enter: the Balkan Spring. A spontaneous road trip to find a replacement bike and continue the overland journey to Iran and beyond. A biblical rainstorm triggered a landslide that did its best to bury the dream—along with the mother of all bike sheds, the flood swept away plans, priorities changed, resulting in a desperate detour just as the overland dream to Iran had revved back to life.

As the visiting village cat grew bigger so did my second world problems.

The cover is a work that is still in progress.