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Travel With A Gavel McCarney Willie 'I was a most unlikely traveller. From the age of 11, I had to take the bus each day to the nearest grammar school, 10 miles away in Omagh. Growing up in County…
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Travel With A Gavel McCarney Willie
'I was a most unlikely traveller. From the age of 11, I had to take the bus each day to the nearest grammar school, 10 miles away in Omagh. Growing up in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, I had no great ambitions to travel other than to visit friends and family within a two- or three-mile radius.
That was more than enough travelling for me. Apart from that there was an annual, one-day, bus trip to Bundoran, a small seaside town in County Donegal. At the age of 19, I had never been to Belfast or Dublin, and didn't feel I had missed anything.Sixty-two years later, when I sat down to write this travelogue, I realised that in the intervening years I had visited seventy-five countries and all five continents, many of the countries visited multiple times.
How had I morphed from someone with little interest in travel into someone who was ready to fly off to anywhere in the world at the