Norman Handy was born in 1957 in Beckenham, Kent, in the south-east of England. He went to school in Beckenham and later went to boarding school in Cranbrook, Kent. He studied Business Economics, Accountancy and Law for accountants at Southampton University.
During the time that he studied, he also travelled and after finishing university, travelled and worked abroad. He returned to the United Kingdom and after some time working in a riding school, followed a career for thirty years in the financial services sector in London, including periods working overseas.
He has two children and is a keen horse rider, walker, skier and of course, writer. He spends his time between his home in West Sussex and travelling.
Starting in Ushuaia, at the southern tip of the South American continent, this adventure goes through the windswept plains of Patagonia and past settlements whose immigrants from Wales brought their language and customs with them. The Patagonian plains give way to pampas before reaching the major ur...
‘El Camino’ is the pilgrim’s route across northern Spain to reach the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela. This was built on the site where the body of the disciple St James was buried after he was martyred in Jerusalem in 44AD. His remains lay unmarked and unknown for eight centuries until a ...
