CONTENTS
From Chapter 11: Local school children had fun with this environmental message in Boa Vista Cape Verde Islands.
Journeys with Open Eyes : Seeking Empathy with Strangers
Dedications
Preface:
What on earth am I doing here?
Chapter 1: Journeys through a Child’s Eyes
Chapter 2: Summer of ’69, My Great American Road Trip
USA & Canada
Chapter 3: Learning to fly
Chapter 4: MMBA: Miles and Miles of Bloody Australia
From Chapter 11. The only way back from the penal colony of L’Ile des Pins on the other side of the world from metropolitan France in 1914, was to fight – and probably die – in the trenches at Verdun.
South Africa and Rhodesia
Chapter 6: Algeria after the French had gone
Chapter 7: Bolivia and the High Andes
Chapter 8: Four decades of turbulence in the Middle East
Kuwait; Dubai, UAE; Iran; Lebanon; Oman; Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Chapter 9: Eastern Europe before and after Communism
Poland; Soviet Union; Czech Republic and Hungary.
Chapter 10: South Asian Mosaic
India, Thailand, and Malaysia
Chapter 11: Island Postcards
Stack Rock, Pembrokeshire; Malta; Gomera/Canary Isles and Boa Vista/Cape Verde; Phi Phi Island, Thailand; L’Ile des Pins, New Caledonia; Cuba; Iona, Scotland; Great Britain.
Chapter 12: France and Spain, my alter ego
Chapter 13: Back where I started? Not quite!
 From Chapter 8: Some of the most vibrant communities in the Middle East live in the most challenging circumstances. |  From Chapter 8: Abra Ferries on Deira Creek Dubai in the early 1980’s, before we persuaded the Municipality Council not to remove the dhows to Pt. Rashid and to retain and enhance this most vibrant part of the heart of Dubai |
 From Chaper 11: Street orchestra, Trinidad Cuba. |  From Chapter 10: Bangkok’s Pat Pong has become more family friendly in recent years, but not in the mid 1990’s! |