My father and then my stepfather were both on the RAF. This was the end of Empire really. So there were still RAF stations in southern Africa, in Rhodesia as it was,. She's now Zimbabwe. And in Australia. You travelled by sea in those days. I'd cross the equator four times by the time I was 11. What difference does it make travelling that way and then live in in these places that would have been so impossibly far for anyone at the time to imagine visiting? Well, I learned things about life on board ship, which I actually loved because we had the run with the ship. It was a straightforward passenger line, a Royal Mail steamer or