largsmantravelling

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.— Oscar Wilde

I’ve kept this header as it is appropriate and a reminder. It is appropriate because when you travel, though the journey may routine and mundane or exceptional and exotic. The journey is unique to each individual traveller. Each of us senses what we experience differently. So our thoughts and reactions will our own. As reminder, not to copy or emulate anyone else. It would be foolish to belittle yourself. Why have I finally worked up the courage to write? Because even though writing has never been my greatest skill.The desire to express myself is strong in me together with a wish to share my experiences. Besides I always wanted to be writer. For successful writing the writer should only write about things they know and experienced. Travelling for definite is something I do know about. I first shipped out as an officer apprentice in the Brittish Merchant Navy aged eighteen in September nineteen seventy seven. Still do over forty years later.As most of my experiences are ordinary as you would expect from the work. They might be a little dull as I still see the ordinary. Two menories, one from San Francisco the other from Abijan. San Francisco was impressive and has remained in my memory as a favourite city. But Saturday afternoon is Saturday noon in any city. In Abijan while waiting to sail seeing the local market at the end of day. Thinking how similar it was to the end of market day at home. The San Franciscos of this world have their attractions but you really need  reason to visit somewhere like Middlesborough, an industrial port city in England’s north  east coast.So here we are. Now it is fashionable to travel where once it was dreamers and dodgy character.Facinating.