Japan Trip Planning
In due course a sampan arrived, sculled by a small Japanese in a sailor suit, with a whistle cord and a round unpeaked cap with ribbons streaming from the …
Traveling in Australia
In the morning, on waking, I walked out into the starlight to study the weather. I knew that I could get off that stretch of water only against a …
Travel to Australia
Martin’s stepson made me a bilge pump by reversing the valve in a bicycle pump, and he made me a new anchor in a borrowed forge. Martin collected a …
Australia Vacations
I started the motor and taxied inshore to calmer water. There was a rock ahead, and I put on some engine and full rudder to avoid it. The seaplane …
New Zealand Travel
I got my discharge in Wellington, New Zealand, and drew £9 in wages for the three weeks’ work. My ticket was endorsed ‘Very good’ for sobriety and two other …
Visit to Australia
It was difficult to work; the seaplane was hard to control, and could not be trimmed to fly level. If I took my hands off the controls for a …
New Zealand Map
My first adventure was the snakebite. I was eleven, and I had been out in the woods in the spring. There was a sheltered valley with a stream, the …
Australia Attractions Map
There seemed nothing to do except to have breakfast. We went back to the house, and Mrs Dignam, whom everyone called ‘Auntie’, produced a delicious feast of salmon and …
New Zealand Vacations
NEW ZEALAND The Bremen, a German ship captured during the war, was lying in Plymouth Sound when I joined her. The steerage quarters were pretty rough, with bunks rigged …
Marlborough, Wiltshire Travel Destinations
My dormitory prefect was Edmonds and once, after he had beaten me (unfairly as I thought), his bed and bedding were completely missing the following night. Naturally, I knew …