About

Vicky Unwin is a writer and a blogger. She has written two books, Love and War in the WRNS: letters home 1940-45 and The Boy from Boskovice: a father’s secret life, both memoirs of her extraordinary parents.

Born in Dar es Salaam in Tanganyika, she travelled the world with her parents – from East Africa to Turkey (by car!), to the Philippines, to Papua New Guinea which proved useful in her anthropology degree. Her mother was also a great traveller, and Vicky recorded her journeys in Travels with my mother.

The wanderlust was inherited and she has spent her life working in Africa, the Caribbean, living in Switzerland and Singapore, and now travels for pleasure, to ski, to dive, to discover new places and revisit childhood haunts, all recorded in Vicky goes travelling.

She continues to work as a trustee for various charities, Farm Africa, reflecting her passion for Africa; and as Chair for Transform Drug Policy Foundation, whose aim is to legally regulate and decriminalise drugs, in memory of her daughter Louise who died from an accidental ketamine overdose. Her near death from a soft tissue sarcoma as a result of bereavement stress gave rise to another blog, Healthy living with cancer – which is now a mantra for her healthy and sustainable lifestyle, and for living life to the full.

Big thanks as ever to my husband Ross who makes all the technology happen though I did a lot of this myself – but not the hyper links between pages and menu bars! He also scanned and improved my terrible photos – which are still pretty dire!