Saturday, July 17, 2010

A single mother backpacking with a 2-year-old

I met Georgina Brooks last month, volunteering on an organic farm in Palamartsa, a village near Popovo in Bulgaria. She's a 23-year-old single mother from Fremantle, Australia, currently backpacking Europe with her 2-year-old daughter, Nina Golden.

Georgina's parents are British and Australian, and they met while backpacking. She met her ex-husband (Nina's father), who's British, while backpacking, too. Now she's convinced he was using her to get Australian citizenship. He's still in Ozzie, shacking up with one of her former best friends. She didn't really want to hang around all that, so here she is. She said she's convinced it's all part of a fairy tale with a happy ending, she just hasn't gotten to the good part yet.

Bless her heart.






3 comments:

Joseph Vargas said...

This piece is superb, Sarah. Well-captured.

Tiago Genoveze said...

Beautiful SB! The pictures of the mother in bed with her daughter reminds me of some photos Mary Ellen Mark took of the Damm family (a homeless family she chronicled over several years) except that your photos are much more upbeat. I suppose the only reason the first picture made me think of MEM is because of the intimacy of the situation. Nice work! I can say with ease that this has been my favorite post of yours.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful pictures. Does this woman have a blog? Would love to hear some tales of travelling being a solo parent.