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Life is not simple, but complex. It is full of surprises and always varied to the extent that can make some of you feel unsettled,  disturbed and anxious. Without variety however, we would suffer from boredom. The Lifestyle Renewal and Healthy Living  booklet will help you face difficulties and overcome them. It teaches you to face life squarely, with courage, always conscious of your problems, but being always able to use your insight and experience in life to master them and find a way of coping with them and shows a different way of viewing life, changing your whole outlook and focus and then get full enjoyment with your changed lifestyle. This booklet is written to make you aware of how the world is changing and to help you adjust with the changes in your life, become more self-confident, healthy, more flexible and positive in attitude, while deriving more enjoyment out of life.

TRAVEL IN A CHANGING WORLD - you can request any Volume for $5 as an ebook. Printed hard copies of Volumes 1 to 4 cost $75 including postage and Volumes 5 to 8 cost $70, so it is much cheaper to purchase each Volume as an ebook. Just email lifestylerenewal@yahoo.com.au to make arrangements and find details. Note: Volumes 1 to 8 total over 650 pages in all.

Travel in a Changing World - Volumes One (Australia to London via Asia, Kathmandu, India) Chapters 1. Indonesia 2. Singapore 3. Malaysia 4. Thailand. 5. Nepal. 6. India 7. Istanbul 8. Athens 9. London) Volume 2 (all around Canada and U.S.A), Volume 3 (Pacific islands – Hawaii, Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua, New Zealand)  Volume 4 (China and Europe revisited) Chapter 5 British Isles in detail, Volume 6 South Africa & South America Argentina, Chile Iguazu, Volume 7 Australia all over in detail, Volume 8 Life Stories from my travels.

Travel in a changing world - a brief summary from the chapter on New Zealand

From Banks Peninsula to Lake Tekapo in scenic countryside with views over the Alps including Mt Cook over shimmering pale blue waters of Lake Pukai on the way to Twizel. Back towards the coast at Oamaru where there are many impressive old sandstone buildings and on to Dunedin. The main sights to see here are the botanical gardens which include large areas of natural bushland, the impressive railway station, museums, the Speights brewery and the nearby Otago peninsula where I saw albatross and yellow eyed penguins. The countryside between Dunedin and Te Anau is picturesque and a swim in the lake at Manapouri and short bushwalks in the area from which cruises go to Doubtful Sound was also a highlight. The weather changed and instead of a cruise of Milford Sound in perfect weather as I had done in the past, I saw waterfalls cascade down the mountains and the impressive Chasm – a 22 metre ravine swollen and churning like a washing machine out of control because of that days’ heavy rain. The weather picked up and I enjoyed another perfect day at Queenstown and went of the TSS Earnshaw steam boat cruise all around the lake. It continued fine at Wanaka (another swim in the lake there), Arrowtown, Hamner Springs, Greymouth ( yes it was grey and drizzly there, so it lived up to its name), nice weather through Murchison to Motueka, Able Tasman peninsula and across to Nelson and Picton where I went on a Mail Boat run cruise in perfect weather of Queens Charlotte Sound.

As the amount requested for the TRAVEL IN A CHANGING WORLD volumes or chapters and the Lifestylerenewal and Healthy Living Booklet is a small amount, payment can be made in CASH - in bank notes only of either U.S, Australian or New Zealand Dollars, Euro or British Pounds.

“I do wish you all the best and every success with your book. It is an achievement to write a book and you should feel proud of yourself and what you have done.

 Hope it’s a best seller.

 Sincerely

 Ita Buttrose”                 (quoted with permission from Ita Buttrose and Harry M Miller)

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Gerard Castles Bio

Lived most of life in Australia, but also in the UK and has travelled extensively between various form of employment in both countries. 

Early years – worked as Insurance clerk and Dept of Education and travelled overseas.

1979 to 1990s –  music teacher, gardening, temporary lifeguard for Gold Coast Council.

1987 to 1992 – founder and co-ordinator of Palm Beach Neighbourhood Centre on Gold Coast. Job description included writing up Media Releases to local newspapers, planning programs, training volunteer staff and radio interviews on ABC Coast FM, Gold FM and 4CRB.

1992 to 1998 teaching music again, writing articles for magazines and newspapers, book keeping. Also travelled to Hong Kong, China, Europe again and South Africa in 1974 and extensively in Indonesia, Malaysia Singapore and much of Australia in 1996.

Year 2000 – travelled around the world – revisited Western Australia, South Africa, UK and Europe, plus travelled over all of Argentina and Chile and Northland in New Zealand on the way back home.

2001 –employed by Mornington Shire Council in Victoria, creating web pages for local businesses.

2002 to 2005 – created my own website www.lifestylerenewal.com from which I earned income.

2006 and 2007 – worked for Qld Parks and Wildlife and for Gold Coast Environment Organisation. “My work included setting up displays, doing research and surveys, committee member, giving talks to school groups about the environment and I did a Powerpoint presentation about Endangered Frogs of south east Qld with Currumbin Special school”

In December 2007, I sold my house on the Gold Coast and travelled around most of eastern Australia, meeting people and collecting last minute material for my book “Travelling in a changing world” which has had an appraisal by Gold Coast Writers group of which I was a member, on its first draft. This gave me excellent advice on how to do the second draft to make it saleable and capture an audience. It was published in 2010 and consists of 650 pages of fascinating descriptions sourced from the travel diaries with the travel information updated.

Published in two separate books – Volumes 1 to 4 contain descriptions and photos taken from the earlier travels experiences which are now of significant historical importance. Volumes 5 to 8 are mainly or travel from the last twenty years up to 2010 and record changes in lifestyle, land use and the environment in places revisited two or three decades later.

Gerard Castles has also published recently a smaller book titled “Lifestyle Renewal and Healthy Living” which sold well as an ebook from 2002 to 2005. It was updated in 2010 and like the book “Travel in a changing world” is available either as an ebook or in printed form from www.lifestylerenewal.com The National Library of Australia and Queensland State library contain copies of both books. Gerard’s interest in land use, architecture, art, people, farming, music and gardening are reflected in these books.

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