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The Accidental Plus One Down Under : Travel Tales From a Trailing Spouse Book 2 by Alison Ripley Cubitt
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Accidental Plus One Down Under: Travel Tales From a Trailing Spouse is the second book in this series.

The book begins on the final day of 2019 as the author and her husband leave their English home for five years in Melbourne Australia, where her husband BB has a job at the university.

This is a tale of the ups and downs that include the Covid years. The reader gets an armchair view of life in Melbourne and a little beyond. I particularly enjoyed the inclusion of their trip to Tasmania and another time when they went on holiday to New Zealand. The author brought her own inside knowledge of New Zealand to this part which included a lesser known tip about avoiding biting sand flies while taking in the delights of Milford Sound.

As the book drew to an end the couple packed up their life ready to return to the UK. However, they planned one last overland trip across outback Australian travelling on the famous Ghan train from Adelaide to Darwin. I particularly enjoyed the descriptions of the train travel and the places that they stopped at along the way.

Book Description:

New Year’s Eve 2019. While everyone else is popping champagne corks and ringing in a new decade, Alison—The Accidental Plus One—is crammed into a flying tin can somewhere over the Equator, obsessing over whether she remembered to lock the front door. 

Can she really uproot her life halfway across the world—again? Rural calm was sweet while it lasted, but when Alison’s partner’s job prospects dwindle, the lure of a new adventure on the far side of the planet proves irresistible. 

This time, she promises herself, it’ll be easy. Fewer things to pack. No dog to uproot. Renting rather than buying. And before she knows it, Alison is heading for a land of giant spiders, the world’s longest lockdown and a place where strangers call you mate. 

The Accidental Plus One Down Under  is a heart-warming and humorous memoir that proves sometimes love leads us on the most unpredictable journeys. 

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