Bucket Lists and Walking Sticks

An Unexpected Adventure

Emma Scattergood

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English

Emma Scattergood
20 November 2025

Coping with disability; Travel & holiday guides; Travel writing

Series: Bucket List Adventures

A terrible accident. Forced retirement. An excuse to pull out the bucket list!

After a motorbike accident leaves her husband with life-changing injuries, author Emma Scattergood organises a worldwide adventure inspired by the contents of an old, laminated bucket list.

It becomes the journey of a lifetime-seeking health and ticking off long-imagined list items: from viewing ancient Petra, treading Greece's Parthenon, and traversing the Suez Canal, to hunting down Doc Martin on the Cornish coast.

Spanning seven months and 19 countries across Asia and Europe, this memoir-told in mouth-watering and humorous detail-pulls you headlong into the sights, culture, challenges and beauty of each place visited. It will make you want to follow in their footsteps, and if you are feeling less adventurous, it offers the perfect escape.

By: Emma Scattergood
Imprint: Emma Scattergood
Edition: 2nd ed.
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 376g
ISBN: 9780645307085
ISBN 10: 0645307084
Series: Bucket List Adventures
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 20 November 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emma Scattergood is the author of the Bucket List Adventure Series and the voice behind darmatravels.com. Transported overland from England to Australia via Afghanistan and India before her first birthday, travel has shaped her life ever since. Her memoirs blend humour, honesty, and resilience as she writes about long-term adventures shared with her husband, life after his accident, and her own experience with stage 3 breast cancer in 2022. Through her stories, Emma shows that curiosity and courage can carry you across the world-or through life's toughest detours. When not navigating foreign train stations or planning the next journey, she enjoys playing lawn bowls and embracing life's unpredictable twists.

Reviews for Bucket Lists and Walking Sticks: An Unexpected Adventure

Fantastic book - Emma has a writing style that takes you on the journey with her. From the delight of her first Singapore Sling to the mysteries of Stonehenge and all her travels in between, I can highly recommend this book. Having her husband at her side, with his walking stick, she expertly planned their travels with his capabilities in mind and delivers a first rate account of the delights of exploring the world. She truly ticks off their bucket list and inspires you to want to follow. At first I didn't like that it was written in the present tense, but I feel as if I was there with them. Absolutely brilliant. Can't recommend it highly enough. So many wonderful places, many of which are on my own bucket list, so if I never make it, I feel as f I have been there with Emma. I loved this book as Emma's writing made me feel as though I was there travelling with her and Darryl. I felt inspired as this couple who have faced adversity continue their adventures with a positive and fun loving attitude... truly no excuse for me!