65 Days to Delhi

In 1974 despite having a young wife and three very young children Basil suggested that he would like to take a year out and drive with his family some 30000 miles to India and back. This is the story of part of that incredible journey and of a group of young people they met and travelled with. A journey that would be impossible today. Three times held up by gunmen in what the author describes as the badlands between Turkey and India Witness to a ritual stoning to death in Ghazni. Locked up for a killing in Afghanistan. And accused of smuggling in Pakistan. The book is written with great humour and honesty. It is a story of a time before e-mails and mobile phones a time before cash machines-a time when it was possible for your whereabouts to be unknown for weeks or months at a time. A story of dangerous mountain passes and dangerous people. But above all it is a story of deep friendships quickly formed of trust and of belief and of the joy of being young when for you the extraordinary becomes ordinary and the impossible becomes possible.