It was February 1982 when I walked into Sullivan’s Greengrocers in West Wickham and asked if they had any Saturday jobs going.  It wasn’t much of an interview process.  They asked me my name and if I was over 14.  “Yes,” I lied (I was actually 13 and 6 months).  I can’t remember whether I didn’t know you had to be 14 or whether I

It recently occurred to me that exactly 30 years ago, two landmark things happened in my life.   Firstly, I started working (a Saturday and after school job at the local greengrocers).  And secondly, I stepped foot on my first aeroplane (to the country then known as Yugoslavia). Since then travel has been my passion.  I’ve been lucky enough to lie on deserted beaches in Thailand,