Bit of background
Before I left UK in 1964 I was out of work for 6 months - waiting for a delayed contract to start .
A keen motorcyclist and having a Honda trail bike ( 50% road / 50% off road type)
I put a map of all roman roads, forts, settlements superimposed onto on a similar map of all registered Bronze and Iron age hill forts in one saddlebag and a bivvy and a few t shirts in the other and set off to see as many as I could !
Did from the West country to Hadrians wall !!!
Happiest 6 months of my life - down farm tracks on the course of roman roads- across fields and fells when they ran out and picked them up again when they reappeared, always camped overnight in hill forts and roman camps.
Couldn't do that nowadays though with all the rules about bridleways, British Heritage sites etc etc
Had plenty of time to think and observe, amazing what a ciggie and a shot of whiskey brings to the surface of your mind at sunset alone in a place that was a hive of activity 1 or 2 thousand years ago !!!
Well thats it - just wish that there was another history freak in Phuket that I could share with !
