Travelling in the 1970s was an altogether different affair compared to a twenty- first-century traveller’s experience. In this memoir, Val Wilkinson chronicles her travels, recounting the journey that she and her husband, Graham, excitedly embarked on: a road trip taking them through seventeen countries in fourteen weeks over nearly 12,000 miles – all completed in the company of their faithful Morris ‘Moggie’ 1000cc van. Val remembers every sight, sound and smell encountered along the way, as well as the obstacles! Dealing with monsoons, meeting snake charmers and having the ultimate beach barbeque were all in a day’s work on this trip, where learning about countries and cultures was done first hand, and mobile phones and emails were a thing of the future. Thirty long years later, Val revisits one of the pit stops on her trip all those years ago – will things have changed? Will the same sights, sounds and smells remain?