Circumstances Unforeseen

This is based on a true story from a journal I wrote in 1976. I had been offered a job to drive across Europe. This was a planned trip which would terminate in Singapore and included camping across Europe and traveling in a 1966 Ford Comet. The car and the camping became quite a journey. The man I was driving for was wanted by the police and was actually on the run--not that I was aware of any of these things until I arrived back in the UK.

There was a third party, who came as a paying passenger. The journey was terminated in Athens due to the fact that the man I was driving for had been fraudulently drawing money from banks as we crossed Europe. I considered it to dangerous to go into the Middle East. The third party and I went to the Greek islands and then traveled back home by ferry and bus.

Alan Springall was born in 1951 and brought up in a working class environment, with a basic English public school education. He completed a boatbuilding apprenticeship 1967 to 1972 and continued in boat building for three years. He also qualified as an offshore skipper. He has always enjoyed traveling and camping and would always turn his hand to any task that came his way and complete it.