Thank you, Nigel, but the credit should go to Roy Palmer and Joe Offer. We were privileged to accompany Roy and Pat Palmer to book launches. And we learned of their travels on postcards from remote points like Ushant, Ischia and Cape Trafalgar.

Roy would send me all sorts of newspaper cuttings and, if I was lucky, one of the books that he had received for review. And whenever I told him anything, he would listen politely before inevitably answering, "I know."