Bea Elwood's Reviews > One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children

Not being able to travel in the time of COVID has made me turn to books about travel, and this was a fun, easy read. I suppose I struggled a little with his level of privilege - yes, he was lucky enough to have been part of a team that put out a coffee table book that was a best seller and that launched his career. I know he worked hard to maintain that career but it's hard to relate to, and then they took their Guatemalan nanny with them! And when he's able to talk about just putting her on a flight to Switzerland when she might not be able to come to Turkey with them it raises some issues. And then they just live in Sydney, Australia for six months, which kind of leads to my biggest issue with the book is that it was so good in the beginning and then it just bottoms out and goes no where. I'm not saying he got bored with writing about their adventures but *shrug*