In casual conversation, while having a drink following a group walk in Leighton Buzzard, it dawned on me and the group monitor, Michael, that, 68 years ago, me aged 9 and him aged 8 travelled on the second voyage of the. P & O liner Himalaya from Tilbury me to Aden and him to further East and almost certainly while sailing down the Red Sea swam in the same open air swimming pool, and played and ate our meals in the same children's area of the ship! What an amazing world.