Countdown to Australia
So, here I sit at my computer looking out at a wet, grey English morning somewhere in the East Midlands. After some 30 plus years in mostly warmer climes I am at ease with my new reality and indeed have embraced it. I'm happy now putting in a shift, taking the wife to and from work and helping my lad with his homework. But it's a suburban routine I refused to embrace while my pals from school, college and football found themselves saddled with mortgages and children I steered clear from commitment - hell, even though I was going to every Arsenal home game I didn't buy a season ticket! I was born I guess with a desire to be somewhere else. By the time I was 10 I had lived in Tripoli, Hartlepool, Bielfeld, North London, Mons, Uckfield and Frimley so it seemed only natural as I considered my career options to look for something that would satisfy those itchy feet of mine. Unfortunately I never really got beyond the idea of going overseas and so after a couple of Inter Rail tri