[West Ender]

I flew from Cairo to Dahran, Saudi Arabia, on a late Winter afternoon. As the moon came up, the Nile became a silver ribbon threading through the Egyptian desert - magical.

In 1996 my husband and I started talking about taking our "trip of a liftime". We decided that when I was 60 I would retire and use the lump sum part of my pension, plus savings, to go to Australia via Singapore, hire a camper van and spend a month travelling round the country, visit New Zealand for a week or two then come home via Hong Kong. As it was, my husband died a month after we made the tentative plans so it was not to be.