If you're fearless, you have nothing to overcome . . .Read More
Dervla Murphy at 80: Living at full tilt
I vividly remember my first meeting with Dervla Murphy in 1979. Husband George and I had just arrived at a hostal in Otavalo, Ecuador, while researching our guide to Backpacking in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. I emerged from our room to find George chatting to a tough-looking woman with an Irish accent. She was telling him where to buy good yoghurt . . .
Read MoreTravelling a different path
If I am to be remembered, I’d like to be remembered as someone who was interested in the ordinary people of whatever country I was in . . .Read More
Collective Wisdoms
Caroline Brennan talks to Dervla
Read MoreAround the world on a bike
'Murphy is adept at getting under the skin of a nation, rarely happier than when eating local food and drinking beer in the kitchens of the people she meets en route. She is honest and determined, but never sentimental about the sometimes desperate situations she experiences and the lives she touches.'Read More