This is the story of the first leg of my ambitious round-the-world journey. I leave England in January 1963, having just celebrated my twenty-third birthday. I had a passport, £250 of hard-earned money, and my over-loaded rucksack. I arrived in Australia, very short of cash but having travelled through seventeen countries, exactly one year later, in January 1964.

Sunday 17th November at the Elma Turner Library
2.00pm