Lebanon was another country that was only regarded as a maybe for our (didn't quite make it to) Cairo to (almost) Istanbul trip. By the time we got to Syria revolution was in the air and I was turned away at the border. From Jordan, Syria awkwardly sat slap bang in the way of our route home to Turkey so we instead flew in and out of Lebanon.

There is no denying that outdoor adventure has come into its own. Jill Baxter still remembers the days when people would look at her sideways with that you are a bright girl, don’t you think you should have a real job? look on their faces when she told them that she was an adventure tourism guide.

A photograph of Diyarbakir, Turkey.

Edna Zhou’s transferable skills in journalism and social media marketing have kept her on the move around the world. No stranger to working abroad she had already lived in China and Singapore before a combination of planning and chance landed her in Paris.

Born in Thailand to a Thai mother and French Canadian Father, Annie Andre is a seasoned world traveller currently living in the south of France with her husband and three kids. We talked to her about soaking in French culture, her personal and financial goals and how she came to be living in the small French town of La Garde.

Over the last fifteen years Jeff Steiner has learned a lot about living and travelling in France. We ask Jeff to share some of that information with The Working Traveller.

Kirsteen Mahmoud settled in Dahab after taking a holiday in the town and marrying an Egyptian man she met there.

When Peter Geyer popped up in our twitter feed with his arms around a piece of street architecture we were intrigued and had to investigate further.

Adam Groffman is an American who decided on a flight from Reykjavik to Boston that he could keep on travelling if he put his mind to it. He is currently living in Berlin and tells us more about his life there.