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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