After graduating from university in the early eighties I became a founding director of a design company specializing in child-centered environments and playgrounds, Some years after graduating, I was visiting a client in Pimlico, an area of London I had little or no knowledge of, when one of my colleagues suggested having lunch in a pub by the river Thames. To my surprise a fellow student from my university was there, We hadn't known each other that well as we were in different years, and we never kept in touch, but he came dashing over to greet me in a state of great excitement, and with an extraordinary tale to tell. He had just returned from an expedition travelling across Asia to China, following in the footsteps of his adventurous grandmother who had traveled there during Queen Victoria's reign. His journey had taken him through China, Indonesia and eventually ending up in Australia. He described to me how, exhausted after his travels, he arrived in Sydney and booked into a motel. Collapsing on his bed, he turned on the television to find me staring out at him from the screen.
