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Schoolboy French and I can order a beer and a sandwich in several more.

These change depending on my mood and just how much has been applied to the rose tinted spectacles, but Inter Rail in my early twenties with Mr Kevin Carney and my brother Mick provided some fun times.
Although I was young, I remember, way back in the early 60s when Brits abroad were very rare, my dad driving us to Barcelona. Easily done these days, but I bet not many folk have done it in a Reliant Robin van.......and he took it over the Pyrenees! Then, just to prove it wasn't a fluke or a one-off moment of madness, he did it the following year. Madman, but a great guy.

"Never judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way, you're a mile away and you have his shoes".

Well, briefly, I'm 50 and coped with the transfer from the 40s quite well I thought. I'm off to my travel destinations with my daughter. It's her 21st and she's recently set up home with her partner, so it's one last journey together? Or maybe they'll both tag along on the next one! It could be the making or breaking of us. :). I work in education, assisting schools in their use of modern technologies. Sounds mightier than it really is.