From Place to Place from Time to Time

Available January 2027 – pre-order now!

Had Marie Curran known that her first European road trip in 1973 would involve being held up at gunpoint in communist Czechoslovakia, she might never have gone anywhere. That would have been a pity.

The young Kiwi sets off with John, a fellow student, on a journey that changes the course of both their lives. They survive Czechoslovakia, fall in love, and marry. Over the next five decades, Europe keeps calling them back.

From Place to Place, from Time to Time is a carefully curated collection of 34 absorbing travel tales that chronicle various adventures in 18 different countries during a particularly interesting period of modern European history.

The author writes with wry humour and a keen sense of the absurd about the highs and lows of travelling around Europe. Places come alive through encounters with memorable people, present-day and historical. Supportive strangers, engaging eccentrics and the odd rogue appear in perceptive stories inspired equally by culturally noteworthy and quirkily trivial experiences.

Liberally illustrated with evocative photos, this entertaining memoir brings a fresh Kiwi perspective to what we can learn about ourselves and our place in the world while exploring different cultures. A must-read for anyone dreaming of visiting or revisiting Europe.

ISBN 9781991436092

280 pages, 230 x 153 mm