My name is Robyn Mulgrew. I’ve been an avid traveller all my life, instilled in me from an early age by my mountaineer, explorer, adventurer father, Peter Mulgrew. Nepal and the Himalayas, the Antarctic and the Arctic, I’ve managed to set foot on all seven continents.

Sailing the beautiful Hauraki Gulf in Auckland, New Zealand, my hometown and always my base which took me to sailing in England and Wales in a 140 foot square rigged Baltic Trader and sailing Fiji and the Lau Group of Islands in the Pacific.

My father died in his favourite place in the Air New Zealand crash on Mount Erebus in Antarctica when I was in my mid twenties. He was just 52 years old.

Eventually my mother married Sir Edmund Hillary, whose wife Louise had died in a plane crash in Kathmandu, Nepal. Our two families had known each other since the early sixties when my father joined Ed setting up Scott Base and driving Massey Fergusson tractors to the South Pole.

I was introduced to India as Ed was the New Zealand High Commissioner based in Delhi for five years.

I began collecting old Indian furniture and soon started importing regularly from the desert of Rajasthan which enabled me to travel to India two or three times a year. After thirty five trips I decided to spend more time in Europe, finding a little apartment in Cannaregio, Venice which for a few years became a perfect base to explore not only La Serenissima but many other parts of Europe as well.

I hope you enjoy reading a little about some of my adventures over the years and please stay tuned for more to come.

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde.

rmmulgrew@gmail.com