Brian I see you still do plenty of travelling to this day but all those places from the Far East to South America are now hardly worth the trouble from what I can make out. I have never been one for memory lane I will never revisit those wonderous ports from long ago I will just have live with my memories one place I would liked to have revisited though is Shanghai but my health has stopped me , to walk along the Bund with my dear wife would be a treat I stayed in the seaman's club on the Bund I was there a week after they discharged me from hospital then they put me on a train for over 2 days to travel to Hong Kong how much would you have to pay to travel across China nowadays I still have my rice paper visa and my train tickets we did a cruise back in 1997 I just about stood it to many people for me 13 nights i could not wait to get off regards Dave