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Chasing the Dream - A new life abroad: An anthology of travel stories (The Travel Stories Series) Kindle Edition
“You’re so lucky! I wish I could live abroad.”
“I bet you spend all day lying in a hammock on the beach, sipping cocktails in the sun.”
20 different stories. One shared dream – the chance to start a new life overseas.
Young lives, families, midlife movers, rash spur-of-the-moment property purchasers, and retirement dreamers are all featured in this book. Read about their adventures and find out what it is really like to move abroad.
Includes work by New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors.
And not a hammock or cocktail in sight.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 27, 2021
- File size5.6 MB
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From the Publisher





Alyson Sheldrake, curator of the Travel Stories Series

Praise for Alyson's books:
"Fabulous stories, brilliantly curated by Alyson, showing the ups, downs, laughs and tribulations of living abroad."
Kevin J D Kelly, author. (2021)
"Chasing the dream is an amazing collection of wonderful people and their true stories, sharing their experiences of living abroad." Kathleen Van Lierop, author of the 'mycrazylifefullwithbooks' blog.
Alyson Sheldrake
Artist and Author
Alyson Sheldrake is the author of the award-winning and popular Algarve Blog, and is a keynote speaker at the annual 'Live and Invest in Portugal' international conference. She is also a feature writer for the Tomorrow Algarve magazine.
She has lived full time in the Algarve with her husband Dave and their rescued Spanish water dog called Kat since 2011.
Alyson has written three travel memoir books about living the dream in the Algarve, as well as curating the Travel Stories Series:
- Chasing the Dream - A new life abroad
- Itchy Feet - Tales of travel and adventure
- Wish You Were Here - Holiday Memories
Editorial Reviews
Review
Kevin J D Kelly, author of the Midlife Misadventures Comedy Travel Memoir series.
"What fun it was to contribute to this anthology. I know why I dragged my husband kicking and screaming to live in a remote Spanish village, but what drew the other 19 writers to their parts of the world? I thoroughly enjoyed finding out!"
Victoria Twead, New York Times bestselling author of Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools and the Old Fools series.
"Why do people move overseas? As a contributing author, I was keen to discover what motivated others to relocate. This colourful compilation provides many fascinating answers. But beware. Reading these true-life tales may inspire you to consider new horizons too!"
Beth Haslam, author of the Fat Dogs and French Estates memoir series.
"Couples moving to the sun, families emigrating the whole way across the world, working people following their employment postings, Chasing the Dream opens readers' eyes to a wide variety of emigration experiences. I was privileged to contribute my own adventure of moving to Australia, complete with 200kg of luggage and twin toddlers, and I'm sure this selection of episodes, narrated by twenty published writers, will entertain and amuse."
Simon Michael Prior, author of The Coconut Wireless.
"If you have ever wondered what makes someone leave their home and move abroad then this is the book for you. Full of wonderful, strange, hopeful and hard-working stories, the book lifts the lid on those people who chase the dream, hammock or not!"
Lisa Rose Wright, author of the 'Writing Home' series of books about life in Galicia, Spain.
"Chasing the dream is an amazing collection of wonderful people and their true stories, sharing their experiences of living abroad."
Kathleen Van Lierop, author of the 'mycrazylifefullwithbooks' blog.
About the Author
She is an accomplished and sought-after artist working alongside her husband Dave, a professional photographer.
The first two books in her Algarve Dream Series, entitled 'Living the Dream - in the Algarve, Portugal' and the sequel, 'Living the Quieter Algarve Dream' were full of useful advice, enjoyable adventures, and hilarious stories of their Algarve life in the sun.
The third book in the series, 'A New Life in the Algarve, Portugal' is an anthology of life stories of other people who have also made the Algarve their home.
She is now busy compiling her new Travel Stories Series of anthologies, covering the globe with tales of travel and adventure.
Product details
- ASIN : B0974P6Q8H
- Publisher : Tadornini Publishing (June 27, 2021)
- Publication date : June 27, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 5.6 MB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 354 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #920,909 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #202 in Western Europe Travel
- #281 in Senior Travel Guides
- #1,175 in Travel Biographies & Memoirs
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About the authors
Nick Albert was born in England and raised in a Royal Air Force family. After leaving College he worked in retail management for several years before moving into financial services where he quickly progressed through the ranks to become a training consultant. As a very passionate and reasonably talented sportsman, Nick had always wanted to use his training skills towards creating a parallel career, so in the mid 1980's he qualified and began coaching sport professionally. After a health scare in 2003 and in search of a simpler life, he and his wife Lesley, cashed in their investments, sold their home and bought a rundown farmhouse in the rural west of Ireland - a country they had never before even visited. With little money or experience and armed only with a do-it-yourself manual, they set about renovating their new home, where they now live happily alongside a flock of chickens, two ducks and several unruly, but delightful dogs.
In 2017 Nick was signed to Ant Press to write a series of humorous memoirs about his life in rural Ireland. Fresh Eggs and Dog Beds (book one) was published in September 2017 and soon became an Amazon bestseller. Book two in the series was published on 1st June 2018 and book 3 in August 2019 and book 4 arrived in April 2021. All four books have received multiple five-star reviews.
www.nickalbertauthor.com
www.facebook.com/author.nick.albert
In general, I like anything to do with writing and reading, dance, cinema, myths and legends, travel, people and cultures, art, and ecology.
According to my kids, I spend unhealthy amounts of time on Facebook. They are right.
I studied Expressive Arts at Brighton in the UK in the early 1980s but dropped out at the end of my second year to work at a Japanese travel agency. I'd been obsessed with Japan as a young teenager, and taught myself the language. I went to Japan on my 'year out' between school and university in 1978 and again for a fling (a.k.a. failed romance) in 1981. I was even offered a job in Tokyo on a Japanese game show but turned it down in favour of a job as a trainee 16mm film editor at a firm in London. Big mistake.
I have also worked as a book illustrator, and I have written several magazine articles about the refugee crisis. In 2015 I became involved in the crisis as a volunteer; collecting, sorting, and delivering aid to refugee centres in Europe, and shipping medical aid to Syria.
I've worked for a wide range of companies, but the common themes seem to be humanitarian and ecological - apart from the film job.
I played the guitar as a child, my teacher was the wonderful Nick Moore from a band called Hackensack. He was very cool and spent quite a bit of time warning me against the evils of drugs. My mother took me to a gig of theirs at the Roundhouse and neither of us could hear properly afterward for several hours. It was my first proper GIG. (Although I suspect the fact my mum was with me somehow invalidates it). My kids have inherited the guitar; I've yet to see them properly play it.
I can sing quite well, and did once perform at the Oxford Playhouse in a musical called Dr. Selavy's Magic Theatre (by Stanley Silverman and Richard Foreman). If you Google it or look on YouTube, you won't find our production (the first UK production) but another group of interlopers who've tried to claim that credit. It was during that time I discovered a horrid thing called stage fright and decided it wasn't worth pursuing a career on the stage. I suspect several people agreed with me.
My son has been badgering me to write my memoirs. He's intrigued by my tales of brushes with the Japanese Yakuza in Kyoto, nightclub-hostessing on Rome's via Veneto, and racing across the European continent with a drunken Croatian philosopher. So far I've only written a memoir about our lives in France . . . the rest is coming.
Please check out my website: https://www.rachelcaldecott.com/
Twitter: @Caldecottbooks
Instagram: @rachelcaldecott
blog: https://rachelcaldecott60.wordpress.com/
Val Poore was born in London, England, and grew up in both north London and the west of Dorset. After completing her degree in English, History and French at Bournemouth, she took a further course in the conservation and restoration of museum artefacts at Lincoln College of Art. She then spent two years smallholding, rearing Jacobs sheep and doing furniture restoration before going to South Africa in 1981 with her husband and small children.
Val left South Africa permanently in 2001 and has settled in the Netherlands, where she shares her time between a liveaboard barge in Rotterdam and a cottage in Zeeland. She has been writing since childhood and wrote stories, articles and radio plays for years before embarking on her first book in 2005. Val loves travelling on her barge, especially when it involves roughing it a bit. She feels that she has better adventures and more interesting experiences that way.
She has written twelve books altogether: three novels and nine memoirs, three of which are about her life in South Africa, a country she grew to love deeply. The others are all about her experiences of living and cruising on her barge. The latest is being published in May, 2021. Then it'll be back to writing some more fiction. Val writes under her full name Valerie Poore.
For more about Val's daily life on board her barge in Rotterdam, go to https://rivergirlrotterdam.blogspot.nl
In 2004 Nikki McArthur (with her husband and three children), traded in her life as an IT trainer and Hotelier in the UK, to live the good life in rural South West France. She now has five children, is a freelance Proof Reader, runs a Retreat and Holiday let business, Garden Centre and Landscaping business, and has also found the time to pursue her love for writing.
Nikki is currently writing a series of books the first of which is entitled "What have we got Toulouse? A family moving to France" which was released in April 2020.
A dedicated mother and natural helper and organiser, Nikki enjoys sharing the knowledge and experience she's gained over the years, which has been her drive for writing. Her practical and down to earth approach to life shines through in her work and is popular with her regular followers. When she's not writing, Nikki is a real estate agent and helps others find their dream home in France.
CLARE PEDRICK is a British journalist who studied Italian at Cambridge University before becoming a reporter. As a young woman, she moved to Italy after watching a video of chickens eating pasta in an Umbrian hill village. She went on to work as the Rome correspondent for the Washington Post and as European Editor of an international features agency. She still lives in Italy with her husband, whom she met in the tiny village where she bought an old ruin and which forms the backdrop of her book Chickens Eat Pasta.
Alyson Sheldrake was born in Birmingham in 1968. She has always loved art and painting, although she found little time for such pleasures, working full time after graduation. Alyson joined the Devon and Cornwall Police in 1992 and served for thirteen years, before leaving to work in the field of education. She became the Director of Education for the Church of England in Devon in 2008.
Once her husband Dave retired from the Police, their long-held dream of living in the sun could become a reality. Alyson handed in her notice, and with her dusty easel and set of acrylic paints packed and ready to move, they started their new adventure living in the beautiful Algarve in Portugal in 2011.
She is now an accomplished and sought-after artist working alongside her husband, Dave, a professional photographer. Being able to bring their much-loved hobbies and interests to life has been a wonderful bonus to their new life in the Algarve.
Alyson is the former editor of Portugal Letter magazine, and a feature writer for the Algarve’s Tomorrow magazine. She is the author of the award-winning and popular Algarve Blog, and is also a keynote speaker at the Portugal Resident 'Living in the Algarve' conferences.
She is the author of Kat the Dog - The remarkable tale of a rescued Spanish water dog, and the Algarve Dream series of travel memoirs. Alyson was also the author/curator of the Travel Stories series of anthologies.
She lives in the Algarve, Portugal with her husband, Dave, a professional photographer, and their rescued Spanish water dog. They create and publish a popular monthly free online newsletter/magazine called Snapshot!
For more information, visit her website at alysonsheldrake.com
I took a short trip to Japan over 20 years ago and kept going. I've now spent more of my life living aboard than I did growing up in the US.
During the day I run international aid projects that hopefully make the world a nicer place. In the early mornings and late evenings I'm either writing, walking or relaxing on a porch, preferably with a drink and a view. I'm a sucker for strong coffee, adventures, and friends who pretend they haven't heard all of my stories.
WALKING IN CIRCLES is my debut book, but I've written in other back alleyways too. I write regularly on my website ToddWassel.com. I won the People’s Choice Award in the Southeast Asia Travel Writing Competition and have been featured in Lonely Planet, the Diplomat and ABC Australia. Not to mention the thousands of family photo albums I must be a part of by now!
I've worked in and traveled to more than 45 countries. I started out teaching English in Japan for over half a decade, was a conflict and mediation advisor in Timor-Leste, a human rights advocate in Sri Lanka, and a hiking consultant in Kosovo. Yes, there are degrees that make you qualified to do all of those things!
I've has seen the sun rise over Machu Pichu and from the top of Mount Fuji, dived the reefs of the Maldives, Indonesia and Thailand, honeymooned in Bosnia and Herzegovina, danced for days at weddings in India, and walked the 750-mile pilgrimage to the 88 temples of Shikoku Japan, twice.
I currently live near the banks of the Mekong river in Vientiane, Laos with my wife and two small kids. We split our time between Laos, Japan and the US.
In 2007 Lisa left a promising career as an ecologist catching protected reptiles and amphibians, and kissing frogs, to move to beautiful green Galicia in the remote northwest of Spain with her blue-eyed prince (who has since become her blue-eyed husband but that’s another story).
She divides her time equally between growing her own food, helping to renovate a semi-derelict house (or actually two… but that’s another story too) and getting out and about to discover more of the stunningly beautiful area she calls home.
Lisa is happiest outside in her huerta weeding, watching the antics of her chickens, in her kitchen cooking interesting recipes on her wood-burning range, or getting out to discover more of the world around us.
Lisa is the author of six travelogue memoirs.
The Writing Home trilogy, told through letters home to Lisa’s mum, is the story of her adventures moving to beautiful green Galicia, beginning with their first year renovating a 200-year-old stone ruin in Plum, Courgette & Green Bean Tart. A year later, in Tomato, Fig & Pumpkin Jelly, Lisa and her blue-eyed prince get married – eventually. And in Chestnut, Cherry & Kiwi Fruit Sponge, the intrepid pair renovate a second ruin, this time for Lisa's mum who moves to Galicia aged 83 and three-quarters.
In the Travels Around series, Lisa invites her readers to visit her beautiful green Galicia in Pulpo, Pig & Peppers – travels around Galicia, and to follow her and hubby S, around the world; firstly on the trip of a lifetime in Bento Boxes, Boomerangs & Red Foxes, and then once more travelling down under, this time to New Zealand at the start of a pandemic which would rock the world. Hot Pools, Paua Shells & a Pandemic brings the reader full circle back to Lisa's beautiful green Galicia.
Simon Michael Prior experiences constant adventures, hazards and exciting situations as a marine rescue skipper and a commander of rescue operations.
Although Simon is absolutely nothing like Murph, Redcliff Marine Rescue’s burly, grumpy coxswain, many of the scenes in his stories are inspired by events he encounters during his duties.
Simon has also lived on two boats and sunk one of them; sold houses, street signs, Indian food and paper bags for a living; visited almost fifty countries and lived in three; qualified as a scuba diving instructor; nearly killed himself learning to wakeboard and built his own house without the benefit of an instruction manual.
He now lives in it by the sea with his wife and twin daughters, where he spends his time regurgitating his experiences on paper before he has so many more that he forgets them.
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2021It's always a wonderful surprise to find a book that makes you want to read more from the author. So imagine my delight to find one that includes stories by 20 different authors that inspires me to go searching for more from all of them! Chasing the Dream is one of those books. Well written, fascinating, poignant, hilarious - it's all here in this one volume to taste and tease - from Zambia to Portugal to Slovenia to Australia. Whether you're a seasoned traveler, current expat, or just love to live vicariously through the lives of others from the comfort of your couch, this book will have you searching for your next travel adventure as soon as you finish it. But how to choose? Do yourself a favor - get one of each!
- Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2022Reading this gave me new authors to add to my must read list. Love reading travel stories of life abroad
- Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2021Who hasn't been on vacation and dreamed about packing up their life and moving abroad? Well these are the stories of people who did just that. What a wonderful and varied collection of stories. I'd read memoirs by many of the authors, and it was a delight to find out something of the back stories. And I've discovered other authors, and will be trawling Amazon to find their books. Superbly curated by Alyson Sheldrake, who also contributes her own story, this is a really enjoyable read. Definitely recommended. Like me, you may meet some old friends, and discover new ones.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2022Chasing the Dream is an anthology of travel stories each by a different author giving their individual aspect and experience of taking the bull by the horns and moving abroad to start a new life.
There are stories of retirement to places discovered on summer holidays, emigration to be closer to family, starting new businesses and careers and much more. Bureaucracy and problems with local builders overcome, each of the stories is imbued with positivity and a joy of life in the chosen destination.
This book is a great way to sample work by these varied authors and get a feel for their memoir series and their individual styles of writing. Alyson Sheldrake has done a great job pulling together these stories and adventures.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2021What a wonderful collection of stories of people who’ve picked up and changed their lives by following their dreams. If you’re too timid to take the actual leap yourself, just reading about these varied adventures will satisfy a good portion of your longing. On the other hand, if you’re feeling daring, these authors will give you not only the confidence to “go for it,” but the luxury of reading about 20 completely different destinations and experiences from which you can take inspiration! Well written, touching, and funny, each story is a mini-trip on its own. Everyone will have their favorite author or adventure…but the best part is this taster will lead you to discover new writers and then follow their stories in full. Highly recommended for anyone with the travel bug!
- Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2022I have lived abroad and I know that there are issues in common for all ex-pats, but I found this book boring. Too many of the stories were placed in the usual tourist countries, of Spain and France, and they originated from citizens of the UK. I would like to have had more variety and stories from exotic locations. Some of the writing was below par as well. The most interesting story is "Melbourne---the Wonder Down Under" which is told by Simon Michael Prior mostly in dialog. The curator should have someone help venture from the safe and sound when next she chooses travel stores for an anthology.
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- YvetteReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars A snippet into living around the world
Another wonderful collection of tales of living in different countries but not all sugar coated! Real people, real problems, lots of laughs and some tears. You will find all of this in this book. It gives a real insight into the trails and tribulations of moving and living abroad and if you’ve enjoyed a certain chapter you are given details of where to find more from each author and I’ve put a few on my list to read! It was like a ‘behind the scenes’ visit to each country taking you to off the tourist track and into the reality of daily life.
- CocodemerReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2022
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
I love reading this type of book and to have extracts from such a selection is very helpful and they are all interesting. Well done!
- Judith SunleyReviewed in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars A delightful read
It’s fascinating to hear about the motivation for the different contributors to make a new life elsewhere and the challenges they faced. And an interesting introduction to the books they have written about their experiences. A really good read!
- Amazon CustomerReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended.
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. The experiences of the different expats I found fascinating and informative. A really good read.
- cultivatorReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars An Enjoyable Book
I found the great variety of stories very interesting and at times humorous. The experiences, the hazards endured, the problems overcome all make for an entertaining read.