Your life has been interrupted by having to work, but now that you are retired you can get on with what you really want to do. For many people that means travelling and seeing the world. This book tries to encourage older people to set out again as they might have done back in the sixties and get to as many places as possible. There are lots of ideas and plenty of helpful ideas covering every aspect of travelling. Ideally you will have that perfect combination of time and money, but you do not need to be rich, penniless students have always managed to travel and you were the generation that...

The photographs in this book have been taken over many years in places throughout the world. They have all been included because they suggest that they would form the basis for a painting or drawing. Sometimes it is a question of pointing the camera in the right direction, occasionally it is luck but more often the artistic eye will spot something of merit. Many have been collected from the urban environment and can be classed as graffiti. Other photographs are from the natural world. Art is all around us but many artists reach a point where good ideas are hard to come by and inspiration is...