The Author

1. My life after leaving school and university has been within post-compulsory school education including colleges - 20%, universities 40%.  

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3. 20% in the tourism industry as in item 4. 

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5. In 1989 I set up an international company and operated in a dozen countries within tourism  development. 
7.  I volunteered  from time to time.  There were four postings occupying five months: St Petersburg, Ukraine, Ho Chi Minh City, and Nepal.
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9. My overseas experience included colleges and universities and in 1992 I became a Professor Honoris Causa in Switzerland after giving a series of lectures on a French judge and gastronome who died in 1826.  Brillat-Savarin.    Wiki    
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11. A six month venture in SW Poland in 1994 combined tourism management and development with volunteering as a teacher of English and Science in two schools: one secondary, the other grammar.  one morning in one. the afternoon in the other.
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13. I retired in 2000 to care for my late wife who died in early 2017.  
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15.  Since mid 2018, I have lived in Charlbury in West Oxfordshire with my poetess partner here.

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