Brian Lawrenson was born in Yorkshire. He was brought up in South Africa in the seaside city of Port Elizabeth.
In the 1960s, Brian lived in London where he met his New Zealand born wife, Jill. After hitch-hiking around the British Isles and Europe, in 1968 they married and migrated to Australia. Brian retired, after a career in sales and marketing in computer technology, in 2000, to work as a volunteer at the Sydney Olympic Games. Brian and Jill live in their favourite city - Sydney.
Brian and Jill's first real adventures started in the 1980s with three trekking trips to the Himalayas, a trip to the High Canadian Arctic and a three months long overland trip from Istanbul to Kathmandu and to Tibet. Since then, Brian and Jill have travelled every continent (to more than 70 countries), often drawn to remote places. They've stayed in hotels with and without stars, climbed lots of mountains, explored many cities, met wonderful people, walked many beautiful beaches and taken time out to enjoy spectacular sunsets - and had a number of life changing experiences.
His interests include: Genealogy, sailing, trekking, speaking, photography and travelling.
In 2011 Brian started a new activity - speaking on cruise ships. So far he has successfully completed assignments on the Radiance of the Seas and the Celebrity Century. These talks were destination talks about Australian and New Zealand destinations.
Brian is a member of the Rotary Club of Breakfast Point, its charter President and was awarded a Paul Farris Fellow in 2005 by Rotary International for his work in the community.
