Journeys with Jim: Tales from our trips around the world

In this book I have attempted to collect together some of the adventures, experiences and incidents that have taken place during over fifty years of travelling with my husband Jim. We often spent time swapping tales around campfires or at happy hours and some of the other campers would comment that it would seem that we had a lot more tales to tell. The suggestion that some of these stories should be put into print for other people to enjoy seemed like a good idea at the time. Deciding how to record a selection of events that had occurred on our many journeys together was a difficult task. This book is not an alphabetical list of places to visit nor is it a list of suggested itineraries; other excellent guidebooks filled with all that kind of information are available. Rather I have chosen to group the stories under alphabetical headings, only then did I find that deciding which story should go where would be difficult. My wish is that the reader can travel along as I recall our journeys or can choose to dip into a chapter that is of interest. Hopefully I have not offended any of the people who may recognise themselves in some of the tales and that they will remember our meetings, however brief, with fondness.