Can We Live Here: Finding a Home in Paradise by Sarah Alderson
'Last week, I was sitting in seven layers (two of them thermal) next to a fire, with a blanket wrapped around me. Now, I am sleeping in knickers and a vest under a fan. Let the mosquitos bites me. They can have me...Can we live here?...If I don't become roadkill in the next few days, I'll let you know my thoughts.'In 2009, Sarah and John Alderson quit their full-time jobs in London and headed off, with Alula, their three-year-old daughter, on a global adventure to find a new home. For eight months, they travelled through Australia, the US and Asia - navigating India with a toddler in a tutu, battling black magic curses in Indonesia and encountering bears in North America - asking themselves one defining question: Can We Live Here?'