Around the World in Several Ways

Former bank director, Bob Burrows pursued his love of writing with freelance work for newspapers and magazines before graduating to writing factual books. One of his seven books, Fighter Writer, a biography of Sergeant Joe Lee of the Black Watch, a First World War poet, was launched at the Imperial War Museum in London, followed by a promotional tour in Scotland and was nominated for the Saltire Award. Bob and his wife, Pat, having survived cancer, decided to travel the world whilst they could and Around the World in Several Ways is a record of their experiences.

For most of us, the desire to travel and see the world is a natural aspiration and for those of us who can, it is an amazing experience. In the early stages of our marriage, my wife and I enjoyed several holidays with family and friends in Europe. It was when the spectre of cancer affected us both that we became more ambitious, more adventurous and determined to see as much of the world as possible whilst we still had time. For the past twenty-plus years or so, we have done just that. We have camped, cruised around the world, yachted, been on road trips, coached, skied, fly-driven and owned a house in Florida for eleven years. This is an account of our experiences full of facts and details, some funny and some serious, with dangerous encounters and amusing and irritating experiences when letting out our house in Florida. We have seen the iconic buildings of the great civilizations, the world's great waterfalls, spent time with the Borneo headhunters, canoed part of the Amazon, encountered polar bears, a leopard carrying her cub, armed escort in Yemen, intrigue in China and interviewed Debbie Reynolds in Las Vegas. Furthermore, we've experienced being trapped by a hurricane in Florida, Olympic Games in Australia, death on a plane, suicide on a ship, terrifying gang fight in Kuala Lumpur, car crash in Florida, five road trips around America and much more!