This Guardian-reading adventurer once spent his birthday being bombed by the Americans in Libya
I’m 54,from Wigan, but “escaped” to Sheffield university to study geology. After graduating I moved briefly to London then in the mid-80s went to work in Libya. Libya was a difficult place to live – essentially a police state, and with lots of military and secret police and not many foodstuffs available. I was arrested twice for spying (for taking innocent photos) and spent my 25th birthday being bombed by the Americans (we lived next to a military base).
After this,I was transferred to Cairo for a year, then spent 18 months or so travelling the world. Highlights included working in a gold mine in the outback (being the only pom in the town, or I was ribbed mercilessly) as well as taking the Trans-Siberian railway through Soviet Russia,staying with the black market kids in Moscow and experiencing coming back to the west via East Berlin (fairly a surreal experience) about a year before the whole communist edifice collapsed for pleasant. So, you could say that I carry out like a bit of adventure in my life.
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Source: theguardian.com