Synopsis
In the first ten years of my working life, as an able seaman in the Royal Navy, I traveled the world and saw nothing. I was fortunate enough to get a second chance to see it all again - and more ¬- and this time I was the Captain.
Which Way Did They Go? tells briefly of my life until, at 42, a change of direction occurred and I found myself in the travel business as a tour operator. The book goes on to relate a number of incredible adventures, some funny, some lucky, some serious that my wife and travel companion Maureen and I enjoyed in the 23 years spent accompanying travelers to places both far away and nearer home.
Inside are stories of a disastrous weekend in Paris, dealing with the sudden death of a passenger in Orlando, managing 150 sequence dancers, being involved in an armed robbery in Florida, breaking a truck drivers blockade in France, a white-water capsize in New Zealand and being accused of air rage in Australia. plus many more of our adventures.
Mick Jeffs, Plymouth, March 2010
AUTHOR BIO
Michael John Jeffs, known most of his life as Mick by everyone except of course his mother, was born in northwest London just before the outbreak of World War II and had a one-parent upbringing for most of his first eight years. After a wasted four years at grammar school, from which he departed early to join the Royal Navy (from which he also departed early!) he slowly began to make something of himself as a salesman. At 42 good fortune led him into the travel business where he found his real niche organizing then accompanying holidays worldwide with his wife Maureen.
This book tells of the many adventures they had and how, in the main, turned disaster into triumph.
In the first ten years of my working life, as an able seaman in the Royal Navy, I traveled the world and saw nothing. I was fortunate enough to get a second chance to see it all again - and more ¬- and this time I was the Captain.
Which Way Did They Go? tells briefly of my life until, at 42, a change of direction occurred and I found myself in the travel business as a tour operator. The book goes on to relate a number of incredible adventures, some funny, some lucky, some serious that my wife and travel companion Maureen and I enjoyed in the 23 years spent accompanying travelers to places both far away and nearer home.
Inside are stories of a disastrous weekend in Paris, dealing with the sudden death of a passenger in Orlando, managing 150 sequence dancers, being involved in an armed robbery in Florida, breaking a truck drivers blockade in France, a white-water capsize in New Zealand and being accused of air rage in Australia. plus many more of our adventures.
Mick Jeffs, Plymouth, March 2010
AUTHOR BIO
Michael John Jeffs, known most of his life as Mick by everyone except of course his mother, was born in northwest London just before the outbreak of World War II and had a one-parent upbringing for most of his first eight years. After a wasted four years at grammar school, from which he departed early to join the Royal Navy (from which he also departed early!) he slowly began to make something of himself as a salesman. At 42 good fortune led him into the travel business where he found his real niche organizing then accompanying holidays worldwide with his wife Maureen.
This book tells of the many adventures they had and how, in the main, turned disaster into triumph.
