Travelling back from Georgia for Christmas

I travelled back to the UK from Georgia by public transport to spend Christmas with my family. The journey was an adventure of it's own. I took overland public transport instead of flying because of the environment impact of flying from carbon emissions. I also find flying quite boring and psychologically disagreeable especially after spending a long time in one country and moving to another very quickly.

The bus from Tbilisi to Thessalonika was a long distance parcel service which went on a tour of obscure Georgian towns, spending up to 30 mins in each, picking up hillocks of parcels and shoveling them into the back of the bus. I helped to carry them onto the bus partly to to speed up the process and partly for the novelty of helping out. In the bus all the parcels were stacked up directly behind me so whilst the bus was moving I had to stop the precarious Jenga towers of parcels from falling on me and my bike.

Looking for 65 people to read a chapter of my book to

/////// Edit:- I'm reposting this blog because it occurred to me that people might be wondering how long a section of my book I would be reading to them just so you don't have to worry about dying of boredom. I have now split my book into 65 chapters and seeing as the book is about 100k words that makes each chapter on average about 1500 words which is not too long. ///////

I am in the late stages of editing my book and I've got some feedback from a few people. Dave Cornthwaite gave some of it a read and suggested that I read it out to an objective listener to see how it flows.

I think it would be an awesome experience to be able to read it out in this way and it got me thinking. I don't think I could find someone who has the time to have the whole book read to them and I think that it would be fun to split it into sections and interesting to get different peoples' opinions.

So I am looking for 65  people who are willing to listen to me read about 1000 words of my book over a coffee, ale, dinner, bike ride, walk, swim  etc. The only catch is that I must get constructive criticism and hopefully it will  give my book project the last boost it needs to get it up to scratch and I can get it out to publishers.

I am currently back in Leicestershire for Christmas but I now live in London. Please drop me an email on andy@ride-earth.org.uk.