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About Rosalie Marsh and Travel Adventures
Rosalie Marsh - is a writer who writes on a variety of topics from hilarious biographical travel adventures to more serious stuff based on personal development which she aims to keep light-hearted and user-friendly. She is an award-winning Author; Educator; Blogger; Marketer and Website Editor. Marsh also has a family consisting of a husband, children and grandchildren.
Growing up in Lancashire, Marsh was a dreamer and late developer but confounded her exasperated teachers, friends, and family by gaining a scholarship to Grammar School.
Following the route of marriage and full-time motherhood, Marsh settled in North Wales with her husband and growing family.
After an early career in banking, she embraced a varied career in sales management and adult education saying,
"In the midst of pots and pans I often dreamed of writing when many story lines popped up in my head. My wide range of activities provided me with a rich seam of material."
As 'born-again' bikers on a Honda Gold Wing motorbike, Marsh and her husband found their lost youth travelling on their own - 'Just Us Two' - in Europe.
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Background to Writing
How travel writing was born
· As 'born-again' bikers on a Honda Gold Wing motorbike, the author and her husband found their lost youth travelling on their own - 'Just Us Two' - in Europe.
· She continues: "During our first Gold Wing motorbiking experience in Ireland, finding long-lost family, I found that the words flowed when recording our profound emotional experiences and realised that there was the beginnings of a story." (These notes lay in a drawer for ten years.)
· Rosalie wrote about their amazing experiences as feature articles, and eventually, after overcoming disaster and changing lives, concluded that together, they formed an inspiring story of adventure and realisation of dreams.
· Later, this award-winning story developed into the Just Us Two series of biographical travel adventures.
After saying good-bye to their beloved Gold Wing, the series continues with other adventures in Ireland, France, Spain, Andorra, Italy, and the islands of the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
'Retiring’ to concentrate on writing, she drew on her skills and experiences in travel and adult education.
Adult learning
Marsh's writing evolved through undertaking various development opportunities and academic studies in later life through her work in adult learning where she took learning out to the learner in the workplace, (work-based learning) achieving a BA(Hons) Degree from the Manchester Metropolitan University. During this period in her career she also wrote and collaborated on various learning programmes and marketing projects.
Charity
Through her involvement with the Gold Wing Owners' Club of Great Britain (GWOCGB) she, along with her husband and other members helped to raise money for charity. Most notable was the Zip Wire adventure where she and another member raised money for Dreamflight - a children's' charity - by zooming off the mountain above Bethesda, North Wales on the longest Zip Wire in Europe.
Fiction
Through travels in Portugal and extensively in Andalucia in southern Spain, Rosalie was inspired to write ORANGES: A Journey, a debut fiction story built on a dream.
· It is the precursor to a longer, more involved saga which has been gestating for many years while other projects have been completed.
Personal Development
On life's journey Marsh says,
" My abiding ethos is that all should have the access and opportunity to develop and achieve their potential as a 'whole' person."
"This is the focus of the series of user-friendly workbooks- Lifelong Learning: Personal Effectiveness Guides."
"A rose is a beautiful flower that comes in many shapes and sizes - it grows and develops until it reaches its potential - as do humans.
A rose begins with a small bud that over the coming months, as it is nurtured and watered, swells and grows until it unfurls its petals to lift its face to the sun.
Eventually, as the petals open ever wider, the rose becomes full-blown achieving its potential until the petals drop to the ground and a fruit starts to grow. . .It is the same with with humans."
Through nurturing, access and opportunity, we too can grow, develop and achieve our potential. Our potential that was embedded in that little cluster of cells, before we were born, that make us what we are and what we could become.