21. Finding a tree frog & a praying mantis in the
south of France, keeping them briefly as pets.
22. Driving over the Alps in a 2CV, not the
open-topped sports car of my younger imagination.
23. Driving through Algeria & Tunisia after my
first year at University, the car finally disintegrating 50 miles after the
others had dropped me at home.
24. A farmer offering us hedgehog baked in clay, to
remove the prickles.
25. Sleeping in the open on the margins of the
Sahara, watching shooting stars.
26. Mint tea, thick with sugar.
27. A caving trip to County Clare, the driest
summer for 80 years: Guinness and chocolate Goldgrain, the flowers of the
Burren and a stalactite formation iron-stained callled "Bloody Guts"
28. An Italian motorcycle mechanic making
replacement piston rings for the 1960 Standard Vanguard.
29. Arriving in Singapore, steamy- fragrant like the “jungle house”
at Wisley.
30. The smells, frangipane, Hindu or Buddhist
temples, durian, drains.
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