I got a opportunity to lead a Tour in Europe, to afford to go at all ..
GF @ the time got abandonment issues in her head , because I could not bring her too .
the relationship went up in flames, ended just when I was scheduled to fly out ..
so I was not a happy camper trip leader/type , and was replaced by the time the trip got to CH..
I had sorted out the kerfuffle with SNCF & the bikes ,, making the pre booked hostel * nights across southern england
getting people across on the ferry to Brittany, *AYH organized the tour and group.
cut loose in Bern with a return flight back I went off on my own and got to AMS on time ..
been solo ever since.. 30 years 2 more solo trips 91, into eastern Europe right after the Warsaw pact dissolved
97 when Ireland had not yet had the Stormont agreement, still British soldiers on the streets of Derry,
and Princess Diana had yet to die in a high speed crash in Paris.. I was in Scotland at that time..
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