Done the Isle of Wight, been to Brighton, went to Paris in the Fifties when it looked and smelt like a foreign country -- I saw Bud Powell play piano and lived off baguettes and cheap vin rouge. I've since done America, done and still do Italy, been to Australia, South Africa -- you might say I was becoming a bit of long-haul bore. 'I always drink green tea and wear my own travel socks.
Copyright 2006  Spectator, The London
