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1-Jul-48 17-Jul-48 London to - Ramsgate, on the English South Coast, with my mum & dad - well I was only 5!!
1-Jul-53 17-Jul-53 London to - Southend in caravan with my mum & dad - I remember my dinners were Spam, Tomato and Piccalilli Sauce with Bread & Butter. I also remember the gas lights at night.
1-Jul-56 17-Jul-56 London to - Isle of Wight, with Geoff Barrow, cycling and staying in YHA Youth Hostels
28-Mar-58 5-Apr-58 London to - School holiday (Ealing Tech) in Bruges - Belgium & Holland (3-4-58 was Holland)
20-Mar-59 28-Mar-59 London to - School holiday in Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, France.24-3-59 was France Metz, ?? was Germany, Trier
1-Jul-59 17-Jul-59 London to - Isle of Wight, Paul Tucker, stayed with his relatives - this was supposed to be a cycling holiday - but wasn't! Lots of Pitch 'n Putt at Sandown.
1-Jul-60 17-Jul-60 London to - Scotland with Geoff Barrow (pictures) in his sit-up and-beg Ford Anglia, camping, we had a canoe on the roof. Route was - London, crossed Border near Lochinver, Edinburgh, then followed the East Coast all the way up to John O'Groats, visited Dounreay Nuclear site, then West along North Coast and down the West Coast through Applecross, Ullapool, Isle of Skye, Oban, Glasgow, Lake District and home
9-Aug-64 23-Aug-64 London to - Italy on a Blue Cars coach tour with my Mum (pictures) via Ostende to Rimini.
18-Sep-65 1-Oct-65 London to - Spain with Peter Eagles (pictures) in 977 TKL - my first "touring/(me) driving/camping" holiday. Our first night was near Le Mans, then Paris, Bordeaux, San Sebastian, Madrid, Seville, Cadiz, Gibraltar, flew over to Tangier on an old Dakota for a day-trip (Gib/Morocco was 23-09) - Jimmy edwards was on the plane, then up the Mediterranean coast - meandering - wonderful!! until the South of France - then raced home!
6-Aug-66 27-Aug-66 London to - Italy with Lyn Savage (pictures)  (from Melbourne Australia), in 977 TKL, camping (I knew how to show a lady a good time!) - basically we drove to Yugoslavia around Rijeka, then round to Venice, down the East Coast to about the level of Rome then across to Rome (fantastic), poor old car was parked on the street for about 3 days with all our gear inside - nothing worth pinching... Florence, Pisa, Genoa, Monte Carlo and home. Last few days were scary I remember - Lyn had a big Italian banknote that she thought was worth (say) 50 US$, but turned out to be worth only 7 - and that was all we had to live/drive on for about 4 days!!
1-Sep-67 23-Sep-67 London to - Greece (pictures) with Andy Roland, Malcolm Shuttleworth in 977 TKL - camping. We met Andy's friend Vibeka who was au-pairing in Frankfurt and delivered her to a family in Naousa, Northern Greece, where she was to au-pair again. Basically across Germany, down to Yugoslavian Coast, down the coast all the way to Albania - which we couldn't get into - so had to drive around - on the way Malcolm managed to get savaged by Sea-anemonies - and we had to take him to 2 hospitals for attention - and I remember that "ambulanta" is Serbo-Croat for Hospital. The drive around Albania was amazing - the roads were more like dried up river beds - there's a wonderful picture of 977 TKL in the campsite after that trip (poor old thing) - through Skopje - a few years after their earthquake - into Greece, dropped Vibeka off - noticed that Greek drivers were on full-beam until they got 20 yards from you - then switched to side-lights (not dipped beam!!) - very interesting the first couple of times... "can't see, can't see... where's he gone??" - Down East Coast to Athens, Acropolis, Olympia, Peloponnese Peninsula, Corinth Canal - somewhere here (Igoumenitsa??) we missed our ferry back to Brindisi, raced through the night to catch it again at its last Greek port of call before sailing to Italy - we slept under an Olive tree and at dawn saw the ship come sailing in - lovely! Back through Italy and home..
1-Jul-69 17-Jul-69 London to - Italy with  Aileen Connolly (pictures) in Lotus Elan convertible, camping - cold going through the Alps with the hood off - but had to be done - down East Coast of Italy again this time through Manfredonia (comical conical houses), Bari and Taranto, across the sole of the boot, up the West Coast, Naples, Vesuvius into the crater, Pisa, Florence etc.. again.
1-Mar-70 8-Mar-70 London to - Austria - Zell-am-see with Mike Waller in his Marcos - skiing - my first attempts - in an old anorak and blue jeans - not stylish - at all - 3 or 4 days there - then back to Geneva staying with Guy de Gonzenbach and with he and his relatives - out to resorts for more of the same English stylish skiing!
1-Jun-70 2-Jun-70 Johannesburg to - weekend trip with Brian and Vonney Stoate to Mbabane, Swaziland.
11-Jul-70 13-Jul-70 Johannesburg to Mozambique (pictures) - Long weekend trip with Fred Boulton and Sue, Fieldhouses, Mac, Laura van Zyl etc.. a convoy - most stopped off in Lorenco Marques - but Fred, Sue, Laura and I bashed on north to Xai-Xai for snorkeling and beaches and camping.
13-Aug-70 1-Sep-70 Johannesburg to - Was this a trip to the UK for Anne and Paul Basson's wedding (pictures)?
24-Dec-70 28-Dec-70 Johannesburg to - Long weekend camping trip to Zavora with Laura, Fred & Sue and Clive & Majak Lewis - great picture of Fred on Boxing Day - after a day in the sun - red face - all puffy - there was no shade!! Pictures....
5-Jun-71 6-Jun-71 Johannesburg to - Swaziland - Mbabane - via Josepdaal - bumped into Russ and Georgina
19-Jun-71 20-Jun-71 Johannesburg to - Lesotho - Maseru - the second weekend where we saw Georgina and Russ??
22-Oct-71 24-Oct-71 Johannesburg to - Swaziland - Piggs Peak etc.. lots of driving good photos.
2-Mar-72 2-Mar-72 Johannesburg to - The big 4 week vacation with Almuth - camping in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe - enter Rhodesia at Beit Bridge - up to Wankie & Victoria Falls, back to Bulawayo, up to Harare/Salisury, Motopos Hills (great!)
11-Mar-72 16-Mar-72 Into Mozambique after Harare/Salisbury, camping at Beira - then the dreaded trip down to LM - failed - this was the failed journey of a lifetime.
17-Mar-72 18-Mar-72 Into SA by Beit Bridge, race thru North Transvaal - into Mozambique - up to Zavorra
18-Mar-72 29-Mar-72 in Zavorra, Mozambique, then back to Joburg
23-Dec-78 11-Jan-79 London to - 2+ week vacation to South Africa - Almuth & I - this started out weirdly... Les Bentley had offered to run us to Heathrow (thanks Les) - and was on time - although roads were a bit icy/foggy - we got to the Terminal just in time to see the Check-in desk removing the Flight details - we went to them and said "we're on your 8:00PM flight" - to which they said "we don't have an 8:00PM flight" - the travel agent had booked us and forgotten about UK Summer/Winter time gain/loss of 1 hour - if we raced - we'd just about catch their 7:00PM flight - but our baggage wouldn't make it until the next day. We raced, got on board - to be told there was a 1 hour delay before take-off. Duly arrived in Joburg the next morning - we were the last to come out of Immigration because Almuth had forgotten to get a visa to enter SA (forgot that German's had to) - they sold us a visa - went outside - and there were our bags - the only ones - on the carousel - they got there - because of the 1 hour delay. Mrs Hayward and  Maureen Koeppler & daughter, met us. I think we went to Alan & Di's house for a day or so then with Mrs Hayward to Kruger, then stayed in Pietermaritzburg, visited Moira and Ken at their house overlooking "all of Africa" and had a wonderful trek through the bush with cousin Billy's sons...??
1-Jul-79 21-Jul-79 London to - Italy, in the VW Scirocco, kids, Almuth's mother, Forti-di-Marmi - rented a house - very cramped driving..
4-Aug-81 14-Aug-81 London to - Boston USA - work for James Barker for the first week or so, then holiday with kids & Almuth, Jane, Matt, Michael & Toasty Kunheim at their house in Osterville on Cape Cod. I remember the Mid-day Maroon - fog-horn type noise that announced to Matt & I "the bar is.... OPEN!!"
19-Aug-84 4-Sep-84 London to - with kids & Almuth to Cape Cod in USA stay with Matt & Jane Kunheim again - they were gluttons for punishment!!
9-Mar-86 16-Mar-86 London to - Algarve, Portugal fly-drive golf - freedom - just me - driving wherever and golfing
3-Jan-87 14-Jan-87 London to - Austria - Zell-am-See kids, Almuth, skiing
9-Jan-88 19-Jan-88 London to - Zell-am-See skiing
13-Dec-88 5-Jan-89 London to - South Africa with kids & Almuth - visited with Alan and Dianne Corrigan, Mrs Hayward, Moira and Ken Stewart, Lyn and Rob. This trip was - Kruger Park (kids saw a snake (their worst fear) in the camp), down towards Durban to visit Lyn & Rob, then further down to Port Alfred to stay with Alan & Di at their beach house - our first attempt at water skiing - then driving on further south Stellenbosch, Cape Town, flew back to Joburg.
23-Dec-89 3-Jan-90 London to - Mottaret - with the office boys skiing
5-Jan-91 15-Jan-91 London to - Bellwaldt, Christine Burke, Brian Stoate, Wendy - all in Brian's car - a time-share swap - skiing
26-Jan-91 4-Feb-91 London to - Kirchberg, Brian Stoate skiing - who was our ozzie ski teach?? met up with him again in 1993

Update!! Update!! Thanks to Brian Stoate for supplying.... Stefan Reiter... G'day mate!! Thanks Brian!!

16-Feb-91 26-Feb-91 London to - Chamonix, with the office boys skiing
2-Mar-91 4-Mar-91 London to - Isle of Man - to check out offshore banking etc.. stayed at grand hotel in Douglas
16-Mar-91 26-Mar-91 London to - Abtenau, kids and Alex Suttle - skiing
17-Jun-91 24-Jun-91 London to - Spain with Eric Richford - checking out the building of his house in ???
20-Jul-91 3-Aug-91 London to - Spain with Vonnie, Brian, Andrea and Tabitha Stoate, and all 4 kids, via Monte Carlo - stayed with the Bassons, 3 day breakdown in Southern France - Britta, Inga and Tabitha Stoate left me to pay for the car repair and they trained it to the villa in Spain.
10-Aug-91 21-Aug-91 London to - Teneriffe with Inga and Tabitha Stoate - I stayed in a very swish hotel - resort was Playa de los Americas - kid say this was 1990!! First week - Ing and I rented a VW Golf convertible and drove all over the island - fantastic - up the coast to Santa Cruz then all the way back along the coast - on other days - up the volcano - Teide - where Planet of the Apes was filmed - very impressive.
21-Sep-91 23-Sep-91 London to - Zurich with Kim Dinh, to Campione to check out "offshore haven" possibilities
9-Jan-92 25-Jan-92 London to - Columbo, Sri Lanka then on to Sydney stayed with Kim Dinh in Botany Bay - drove to Hunter Valley and south to Kiama
15-Feb-92 24-Feb-92 London to - Verbier with Christine Burke and the office boys - skiing
14-Mar-92 26-Mar-92 London to - Lech with kids stayed at Hotel Krone, expensive
24-Jul-92 27-Jul-92 London to - Monaco to stay with Paul & Anne Basson for the weekend. what a name-dropping weekend it turned out to be..... initially Bass met me at Nice airport in his Porsche 911, drove to MC. Next day - out on their yacht to Menton, swimming, drinking Shampop then back to the harbour entrance for the first fireworks display of the year, then mototred down to the Sporting Club where we barbecued and heard Joe Cocker on stage, then back to the harbour entrance where lots of boats were still "mingling: after the fireworks - heard a tinkling piano - turned out to be Elton John giving a concert on the back of a big yacht - watched/heard him for about an hour, then home - out on the boat the next day - then on the Monday I helicoptered back to Nice airport. Well done Bassy's!!
2-Oct-92 10-Oct-92 London to - Turkey, flotilla cruising, with Inga,  Dalamam airport to Marmaris where we got aboard our 30 foot power boat (no experience necessary), there were another 6 or 7 boats in the flotilla - next day was instruction on how to maneuver the boat and get the anchor up/down etc.. then off.... as fast as we could - spread all over the horizon - making for the designated "next stop" - lots of drinking - very relaxed - lounging on the quayside, pre-dinner drinks - talking over the day's events. Tour captain was Peter ?French name?, engineer was Kiwi ?? - met up with them again a few months later at the Earls Court Boat Show.
24-Dec-92 27-Dec-92 London to - Edinburgh with kids, Sheraton Hotel - toured around the Highlands a bit - silly Christmas Day in my bedroom - lots of balloons, streamers, present opening etc..
9-Jan-93 19-Jan-93 London to - Avoriaz, with the office boys - skiing
30-Jan-93 7-Feb-93 London to - Kirchberg with Brian Stoate in the Renault 25 - after a time-share swap in Italy failed, because we didn't like the "lack of snow". I was asleep in bed one night - Brian returned saying "you have to get up and come meet ?? - the Ozzie ski-teach he'd re-met in  a bar - what a coincidence - he'd married the lady he was with before in 1991 - she was Dutch and he joined her family Rhine boat cruising for a few years, and was here again on holiday. See 4th Feb 1991 - Stefan Reiter!!
30-Jul-93 2-Aug-93 London to - Hagenburg and Steinhude in Germany for Heiko's marriage, my car (the Renault 25)  broke down at Dover, rented something else stayed with Harald and Sabine Stuertz - got fully searched on return to Dover - unshaven, single male in rented car!!
21-Dec-93 29-Dec-93 London to - Meribel in the Renault with kids and Lee Cheung Chan skiing - Chalet.
25-Feb-94 28-Feb-94 Hong Kong to - Taipei with Janet - initially I was looking for boat-builders - but they all seemed to be based in the South at Kaoshiou - enjoyed the city - reminded me a bit of Paris 30 years before - lots of scooters and cars parked on pavements, higgldy-piggledy - also broad streets with smaller streets paralleling them - with green grass and trees separating them.
13-Mar-94 13-Mar-94 Hong Kong to - Macau, Bella Vista hotel for lunch - day trip
3-Apr-94 6-Apr-94 Hong Kong to - Guiling, China - flight delayed 18 hours because of fog at Guiling - river trip was excellent (except for the "that hill is shaped like a monkey" descriptions) stayed overnight in a river-side village - very rural/rustic
8-Jul-94 15-Jul-94 Hong Kong to - Bangkok then onward to Phuket with Janet, stayed in Meridien Hotel on West Coast - met Brittsy and Michael Davies, who were backpacking Asia - celebrated Brittsy's 21st birthday there.
7-Oct-94 18-Oct-94 Hong Kong to - Singapore with Janet, went on a day-trip to Malacca
4-Nov-94 6-Nov-94 Hong Kong to - Hainan, cruising on Start Cruises ship Pisces - with Janet and Donna and KY. Crazy driving in the port city of Hainan, and lots of construction - very dusty/dirty.
12-Nov-94 13-Nov-94 Hong Kong to - Canton / Guanzhou with Janet by train - walked around the old "foreigner's area" the island of Shamian, on returning at night to HK - we saw bright lights and lots of traffic and reckoned we had reached Hong Kong (without noticing the border) - turned out to be Shenzhen - an exact copy of groovy HK!!
31-Jan-95 4-Feb-95 Hong Kong to - Bali with Janet, Nusa Dua, Putri Bali hotel - rented a car - drove Eastern half of the island one day and the Western half the next - very picturesque - didn't like Kuta, but the volcanoes and beaches etc - plus the "decoration" of everything (trees, lamp-posts etc..) - very impressive.
15-Jun-95 20-Jun-95 Hong Kong to - Manila, Philippine Plaza Hotel, this was Janet organising me - I'd said I wanted to tour/drive around the Philippines - she said "you cannot" - meaning - there are no maps, no road signs, and everybody is a crook and will rip me off. I said I'd done enough touring before to take care of myself - she asked Rene Limson to organise me. Many thanks Rene -  it was all true what Janet had said (except maybe for the rip-offs) Rene first drove us East to Ta-al volcano and lakes - this is where Janet wants to settle eventually - around Tagaytay - then north to Baguio where we stayed in the Country Club - Janet had said there were log-cabins in Baguio, but they were of the flat board (not round-tree) variety. We then drove over towards Angeles/Clarke and drove through the remains of the Pinatubo eruption. That was amazing.... we were 40 Kms away from the volcano (which had erupted a few years earlier) and as we drove across a large river (I didn't realise it was a river, because there were no banks or water - just dust (like grey talcum powder) and we started to see the apex of houses buried in the "dust" - it was 20 feet at least deep!! The river had been a hundred yards or more wide - and it was completely full of this "lahar" (40 KMs away!!) - and they said more would come down each year - as typhoons came in - deposited lots of water onto the slopes of Pinatubo, where the dust/lahar was lodged - and "it would just become unstable and run down until it subsided. Amazing!!
7-Jul-95 17-Jul-95 Hong Kong to - London via Kuala Lumpur - Janet was working there - so a convenient time to visit the kids - this when I took Gorey in bag.
16-Sep-95 20-Sep-95 Hong Kong to - Koh Samui with Janet - met up with Britta and Inga who were backpacking Asia (again) and had been staying on Koh Pah Ngan - we stayed at the very nice Baan Tan Biling hotel whilst the kids "roughed it" in a resort place next door.
14-Dec-95 18-Dec-95 Hong Kong to - Beijing with Janet, Steve Wells and Robbie - Great Wall, Winter Palace, Tiananamen Sq, Ming Tombs, Forbidden City, Palace of Heavenly Peace - etc.. it was freezing cold - Winter Palace lake was completely frozen - and up at the Great Wall - well.....!!
5-May-96 5-May-96 Hong Kong to - Batam, Indonesia, ferry - to get extended visa to stay in Singapore
18-Jun-96 30-Jun-96 Hong Kong to - Brisbane with Janet, stayed on Kangaroo Point, then rented a car - drove north to Gold Coast - enjoyed Noosa Heads - stayed in Sheraton there then down to Sydney where it was a bit chilly.
27-Sep-96 6-Oct-96 Hong Kong to - San Francisco with Janet (I think I flew cheapo - DHL Courier) then onward to Oklahoma - stayed with Janet's sister Doris and her daughter Kasey - not forgetting the 2 Pugs - Daisy & Gizmo - missed Howard who was working in Chicago (I think). Drove to Dallas met up with Doris' ex-mother-in-law Beth then all 5 of us drove to San Antonio - did the Riverwalk and the Alamo - and had a good time.
9-Nov-96 11-Nov-96 Hong Kong to - Kuala Lumpur with Janet - rented a car in Singapore and drove up - stayed at Pan Pacific - then day-tripped to Genting Highlands
11-Feb-97 21-Feb-97 Hong Kong to - Vancouver, Canada skiing with the kids. They flew in from London - I had to wait 10 hours in the airport for them - then onto a bus for 1+ hours to Whistler / Blackcombe - Inga fell out of the bus into a snow drift - good skiing - but grey overcast weather.
20-Sep-97 20-Sep-97 Hong Kong to - Macau - with kids Bella Vista Hotel for lunch - Brittsy had quail - rubbish!
25-Dec-97 4-Jan-98 Hong Kong to - Philippines - Cebu with Janet & her kids - rented a car - drove to Chocolate Hills, and to Alegria Resort (very swish)
9-Apr-98 14-Apr-98 Hong Kong to - Maldive Islands with Janet - stayed at Club Med, visited Male.
19-Jul-98 25-Jul-98 Hong Kong to - Tokyo - basically a work visit - but took a day trip with Steve & David to Nikko on Shinkansen
5-Aug-98 11-Aug-98 Hong Kong to - business trip to London & Frankfurt but visited Brittsy in Maida Vale
18-Sep-98 23-Sep-98 Hong Kong to - London another business trip - Brittsy
12-Feb-99 20-Feb-99 Hong Kong to - USA - San Francisco with Janet, rented a car - drove to Tahoe - full up for President's Day weekend - onto Carson City overnight, then to Death Valley, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, helicopter down into the Grand Canyon, then back towards LA across Mojave Desert, onto the coast near Santa Barbara, Hearst Castle, Big Sur, Pebble Beach, Carmel
26-Feb-99 5-Mar-99 Hong Kong to - London, clean up 131 with Brittsy - Janet & Ralphs arrive 5/3
6-Mar-99 14-Mar-99 London with  Janet, kids, Claire, Ralphs all off to Verbier from Gatwick - skiing holiday
6-Apr-00 6-Apr-00 Hong Kong to - Macau - to get visitors visa - lunched at the golf course/hotel on third island..
23-Jun-00 27-Jun-00 Hong Kong to - Singapore - Hilton Hotel with Janet - met Brian & Vonney on 24th on their way back from Bali holiday - at Raffles Hotel.
31-Jul-00 4-Aug-00 Hong Kong to - Phnom Penh, Cambodia with Janet, Sofitel Hotel - Russian Market - fish restaurant and theatre entertainment
5-Aug-00 8-Aug-00 Then to - flew to Siem Reap Cambodia - Thok Lok Noklok Hotel - Angkor Wat, and all the others - nearly stepped on a 3 foot long snake in the jungle!!
9-Dec-00 20-Jan-01 Hong Kong to - Australia. Inga had gone there already, Brittsy came through Hong Kong - she and I flew down to Sydney on different airlines arriving a couple of hours apart - rented cars - Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Pt. Douglas, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney - in more detail
20-Mar-01 26-Mar-01 Hong Kong to - Singapore for a marriage TSH
21-Mar-01 21-Mar-01 Hong Kong to - Bintan, Indonesia, Banyan Tree Hotel - TSH and Jules
30-Mar-01 30-Mar-01 Hong Kong to - Day trip to Macau with Janet, Doris, Armi, JL
30-Aug-01 30-Aug-01 Hong Kong to - fly United to Singapore - to look for new flat
17-Sep-01 17-Sep-01 Hong Kong to - Garuda to Singapore, our new home...
17-Jun-02 17-Jun-02 Singapore to - by bus to KL - Sunway Lagoon Resort Hotel - and stayed with Wallers 21/06. Enjoyed Bangsar and Shampop day watching England get beaten by ??Brazil?? (World Cup).
21-Jun-03 22-Jun-03 Singapore to - KL by bus - Steve Wells' 40th pictures
28-Feb-04 2-May04 Singapore to - KL then London - Stoates, Kids, everybody else, Skiing La Plagne with Brian - narrative & pictures
26-Dec-05 06-01-05 Singapore to - Manila, Canyon Woods, Boracay
12-Feb-05 22-Feb-05 Singapore to - Beijing and Mongolia - Ulaan Bataar
04-Aug-05 13-Aug-05 Singapore to - Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam
05-Oct-05 13-Oct-05 Singapore to - Mumbai, Delhi, Taj Mahal
19-Dec-05 03-Jan-06 To Manila for Christmas/New Year - home via HK
21-Feb-06 31-Mar-06 UK trip - then Val Thorens skiing with the boys
05-Oct-06 16-Oct-06 Bhutan, Kathmandu
10-Dec-06 02-Jan-07 Christmas in Manila - New Year in HK
30-May-07 15-Jun-07 UK trip - Brittsy and Gary get married
15-Dec-07 04-Jan-08 Manila, Bacolod, Cebu - Xmas, New Year
16-Feb-08 12-Mar-08 To UK, with Janet - skiing with the boys - Kircjhberg Austria.
14-Nov-08 20-Nov-08 HK - JL's graduation
18-Dec-08 21-Dec-08 HK - Craig & Mandy get married
21-Dec-08 03-Jan-09 Manila for Christmas/New Year
21-Feb-09 02-May-09 Florida, Texas, Florida, Texas trip

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