Bizzie Frost

Kenya-born Bizzie Frost has adventure in her blood and has travelled extensively. After training as a nurse in London, she spent four months travelling the "hippie trail" to India in 1976. On arriving back in Kenya she was swept off her feet by a young airline pilot, Richard Frost. They were married in 1978 and she moved back to Kenya where she became a freelance photographer. In 1984, Richard's work took the family - now with a three year-old son and nine-month-old daughter - to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She continued with her photography and became a freelance journalist, writing mainly for the Saudi Gazette. When her husband wasn't flying, the family spent their time exploring the country, camping out under the stars in remote deserts and mountains. In 1999, a botched spinal operation in Jeddah left her partially paralysed. After months of rehabilitation, she picked up the threads of her journalism and photography career, and her photography project "Journey with my Wheelchair" earned her a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, and a Fellow of the Disabled Photographic Society. But it wasn't until Richard proposed that they buy a Harley-Davidson that she really felt herself come alive again. She spent the next ten years riding pillion with him around Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries, using every journey as another story for the Saudi Gazette as well as other publications. The couple left Saudi Arabia in 2015 and she now divides her time between Kenya and London. When she's not writing, she likes to spend time with her family, especially her four grandchildren.