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                                   Contents                                                                              A boxcar to Palenque                            111


                                                                                                                         Marched off at gunpoint. Breaking morality laws
                            Casting off with a bang                             9                                        in the park. Our national monument apartment.
                            An offer I couldn’t refuse. I’ll have that yacht please.                                     In the grip of a President. Down and out in Mexico.
                            Dodging sunken reefs in the ‘perilous patch’.
                            Flopping around in seaweed.
                                                                                                                         Maggie, the flower child                        129
                                                                                                                         Trudeaumania in Toronto. Arrested in U.S. Down Mexico
                            Melting tones of the Pacific                      27                                         way. Two girls, two hitch-hikers and a Bambino Fiat.
                            Tandem adventure ends in the lock-up.                                                        Chased for my blood. Bernie and the baker’s daughter.
                            Ginger-wigged beauty. Rushed to the ship by a Tahitian
                            goddess. The Old Man and the Sea. A car called Midge.
                                                                                                                         Cheap wine and paella                           143
                                                                                                                         Stopped at gunpoint in Bulgaria. The night
                            The flying priest of Camiguin           39                                                   the roof disappeared. The stern Swiss judge and
                            Evading pirates. An embarrassing lunch aboard a warship.                                     the campervan. Down and out in France.
                            Troppo priests on Camiguin Island. The last bottle
                            of the Consul’s wine for Shrimpy.
                                                                                                                         The Hippie Trail                                153
                                                                                                                         Shot at in Turkey. Luxury on a lake. Down the
                            Standing in for the Beatles                       55                                         train loo in India. Cornflakes in Kathmandu.
                            Coffin packed and ready to go. Insignia of the Magnificis                                    Passengers in Alfresco Class. A banana boat to Malaysia.
                            Twit. David’s body parts. The extraordinary year of 64.
                            Hello Beatles and hello John Cleese. Life is a vintage car.
                                                                                                                         Bromide in my tea                               167
                                                                                                                         Hitch-hiking across the Outback. In search of
                            Bombed but not bowed                              71                                         Yamamoto’s aircraft. Free rides at Disneyland.
                            Emerging from the rubble. Violin concerto in a bomb                                          Kentucky fried maggots. Life is a beach.
                            shelter. Skin art revealed in a wartime hospital.
                            Schooling begins at knee height.
                                                                                                                         Where the cows sleep at night        179
                                                                                                                         End of yachting days. Self-sufficiency in the bush.
                            Tiddlers in a jam jar                             81                                         A mudbrick house emerges from the soil. Toby,
                            A two-up, two-down terrace house. Mother and son                                             the 16-hand monster. The march of the pylons.
                            immortalised in a flash. Queuing, the national pastime.
                            The inedible national loaf.
                                                                                                                         The Grand Dame of Levuka             191
                                                                                                                         Patterson’s ghost. Sir Peter Ustinov visits Levuka.
                            The river of lanterns                             97                                         The legendary Dora on Nigau Hill.
                            Upside down view of Panama. A brothel of a boarding                                          Tales of wild colonial days.
                            house. Lost in the jungle. Face to face with a mountain lion.
                            Brother Leon’s tin drum. In the mud with the Premier.                                        Index                                           198
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