Smelling the Breezes (Paperback)

Ralph Izzard

ISBN 10: 1780601980 / ISBN 13: 9781780601984

Published by Eland Publishing Ltd, London, 2022

About this Item

Paperback. Smelling the Breezes is an inspiring adventure, that throws down a gauntlet about what can be achieved in a family holiday. Rather than give a leaving party, Ralph and Molly Izzard had their own plans about how to say goodbye to their home in the Middle East. They would walk the three-hundred mile spine of the Lebanese mountains, camping where ever they stopped with their four children, two donkeys and Elias (their gardener-nursemaid-friend) as their sole travelling companions. An inspiring adventure, that throws down a gauntlet about what can be achieved in a family holiday, a 300 mile walk through the Lebanese mountains. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Smelling the Breezes (Paperback)
• Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780601980
• ISBN 13: 9781780601984
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

"For God's sake don't take a gendarme with you. That's asking for trouble. People won't have any confidence in you at all, and you will find yourself being shot at on principle. Pin your faith of Arab hospitality, drink only spring water and watch out if you meet a man by himself high up in the mountains. He's probably an outlaw, and what he will want is cigarettes, food and news, and if you give him those you should be all right."
This was the considered opinion of our quarter in Beirut on the walk we proposed to take with our children through the high mountains of Lebanon. Yes in spite of this warning and the natural hazards of a 300-mile trek with four children in country that was practically waterless ad infected with serpents and scorpions, Ralph and Molly Izzard arrived safely at their journey's end.