A LITTLE MORE ABOUT MY LIFE AND LIKES
15 years ago after visiting a friend in Cyprus, I decided I liked the pace and environment of the Mediterranean and was particularly drawn by the Greek islands. After visiting several of them, Crete stood out head and shoulders above the rest. I recharged my batteries almost overnight and both MiSDirection and Assurance were finished for publication within a year. Two more books, Assimilation and Accession, are being researched to complete the quadrilogy.
Crete has provided a real fillip for writing but I can't quite put my finger on why. Perhaps it's the tranquillity, the lack of traffic noise or even the social scene and spending time with genuine people instead of a pseudo existence in front of the TV. I have met some 'real' characters, one of which has inspired two further novels; Discrete Reversal was published in 2015 and another, Sea of Duplicity, is now under way and nearing completion.
Crete has provided a real fillip for writing but I can't quite put my finger on why. Perhaps it's the tranquillity, the lack of traffic noise or even the social scene and spending time with genuine people instead of a pseudo existence in front of the TV. I have met some 'real' characters, one of which has inspired two further novels; Discrete Reversal was published in 2015 and another, Sea of Duplicity, is now under way and nearing completion.
Elounda in Crete - this is the main setting for the novel Discrete Reversal
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Relaxing at Nora's Kafeineon - Fourni
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My favourite beach. Sometimes I just park the camper for the night, watch the sun set and rise again in morning.
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Olive picking or writing with a very long pencil?
 Maybe you'd like to see the back of me!
At heart I’m still a steam engine enthusiast and these three photographs each have a special meaning. Above is a special train pausing at my home town of Yeovil with another type of engine I helped restore and drove more than thirty years ago. The one to the right with me in the cab was taken on the Children’s Railway near Budapest just before I drove all the way back to the terminal station. The black engine I helped rescue from a south-Wales scrapyard with my late professional railway-man friend Jack Twyman, who sadly died before it steamed again.
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Latsida, one of the villages where I lived in East Crete
A big child driving on the Budapest Children's Railway
Yours truly with Jack Twyman's dream
Sailing is my latest daft hobby and I sailed, in 'Samphire', around 21 Cyclades islands during the Spring of 2016
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