Shaun Donovan

50 Greek Islands in 60 Days (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Th ere is nothing more exciting in this world, than paying a visit to the mystical shores of the Greek Islands, steeped in ancient history, and bounded by endless stories of Greek gods and goddesses, all embedded in an immortal shrine of Greek mythology. Surrounded by golden sands and encompassed by turquoise seas, along with boasting clear blue skies and scorching summer temperatures, is all the criteria that Shaun Donovan required, before embarking on his latest challenge, of traversing '50 Greek Islands in 60 days'. Armed with a rucksack, a pull-along travel case, and a man-bag, Shaun enjoys the delights of scores of mini-cruises around the beautiful Aegean Sea, stopping-off at some of the most breathtaking islands in the world, along the way. With only a walking cane to assist his severely degenerated right hip, Shaun is often left to traverse mountainous hills, and to climb neverending stairways, with each strategic movement causing him agonising pain, as his right hip crunches bone-on-bone with every other step that he takes. Apart from having a string of wonderful adventures, read how Shaun is stalked by a weirdo in Crete, before being ripped off by a taxi driver in Milos, and how he is left to avoid a bunch of marauding pickpockets in Tinos. Aside from all the wonderful people Shaun meets on his island-hopping extravaganza, our intrepid traveller also befriends a beautiful woman on the island of Leros, before moving on, to fi nish what he started. With each glorious island being so diff erent from the next, it is no wonder that Shaun is already planning to traverse another '50 Greek Islands' in the not-too-distant future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse UK
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798823093804
• Artikelnr.: 75130137

Autorenporträt

Shaun Donovan was born in Cardiff, South Wales, on 9th August 1959. The son of a carpenter, he joined his father in the building trade, after leaving school at the tender age of fifteen, but Shaun was soon disillusioned with the industry, and so he changed careers, working first as an office clerk, before moving into the lucrative world of sales and marketing. Being a keen motorcyclist and an avid travel enthusiast, Shaun spent numerous holidays riding his bike around Europe and North Africa, spanning 10,000 miles, and visiting thirteen countries, along with several islands between 1981 and 1983. In 1984, Shaun married his fiancée, Caryl, and by the end of 1991, they were the proud parents of three wonderful children, namely Liam, Carl and Hayley. However, after being made redundant, due to the economic recession, and with little hope of re-employment soon, Shaun's marriage sadly collapsed the following year. In 1998, Shaun moved to the Canary Islands to live, and two years later he took his three children around the whole of America, and across into Canada, utilising the Greyhound Bus system to cover a total of 12,000 miles. Apart from giving them the holiday of a lifetime, Shaun also kept the promise he had made to them two years earlier, by treating them to a wonderful week in Disneyworld. In 2001, Shaun met Sally on the island of Tenerife, and in 2007, they took off on another great Greyhound Bus ride -only this time around the whole of Australia. Three years later, Shaun returned to Wales, and the following year, him and his daughter, Hayley, set off on a 60,000km (40,000 miles) jaunt around Asia, Africa and India. In October 2019, Shaun set off to conquer his final continent, namely Latin America, and after spending two months traversing the length of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay, his daughter, Hayley, joined him in Brazil, and together they crossed the South American continent, from east to west, before heading off to Central America, to visit Panama, Costa Rica, Belize and Mexico. From here they flew into Cuba for the final leg of their 50,000 + km (30,000 + Miles) Expedition. Two years later, Shaun took on his latest challenge -to visit '50' Greek Islands in only '60' days, and between July and September 2023, he completed this truly incredible task. At this point, he had also achieved his lifetime goal of travelling 'Around the World in 80 Ways' by utilising over 80 different modes of transport to traverse over a quarter of a million miles around our planet. Shaun is now hoping to follow-up on his Greek Islands escapade, by doing a similar jaunt around dozens of Caribbean Islands, although he is also considering having a hop, skip and a jump around scores of islands in the Indonesian archipelago, and doing likewise in the Philippines, and so who knows which one will be next?