Jeane
What a great way to spend your redundancy cash. Was it Capri where Gracie ''it's turned out nice again'' Fields spent her latter years? I suppose you get to Capri by boat?
Luckily my rtw ticket was Club and First Class courtesy of the taxpayer in those good old pre expenses scandal days.
One of my scariest trips was through the Iron Curtain,once by car and twice by rail. The East Germans really knew how to search you and your bags leaving no stone unturned! Going through the border control with the search lights , watchtowers and signs depicting ''Achtung Minen'' and displaying the skull and crossbones gave me the willies.
USSR was a no go for me 'cos of job and family but it's all changed since the Cold War years.