Rory Allardice worked in France, Italy, the Soviet Union (Georgia, Armenia and Russia), China, former Czechoslovakia up to the Velvet Revolution, Poland during the round table negotiations and early post Communist years and the UAE. During his stay in Dubai, he travelled to many of the nearby countries and wrote a series of illustrated travel journals, which included his own photographs. He also edited his father's autobiography: "Friendship in a Time of War" by Dallas Allardice. He picked up a few languages in his travels and has a keen interest in Celtic and world music. He organised a festi...