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| Bruce Everiss in Raratonga |
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| Bruce Everiss in Havana, Cuba |
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| Bruce Everiss in Egypt |
All my life I have loved travel and was lucky enough to get abroad when I was quite young, which was rare in those days. In the video game business I have had to travel to America many times and also all around Europe and to Japan a couple of times. But privately every opportunity to get away has also been taken. At one stage I was running two 50 page passports and was filling them at the rate of one a year. Going, say, to the Caribbean and then island hopping with LIAT till I had visited all their stops. Or going to the Middle East or to Asia and then using local transport to get from country to country. The record was 52 countries in one year.
I have managed to cross the international date line 6 times, have done the Trans Siberian railway in winter, went to Lebanon immediately they started issuing visas after the civil war, to see Beirut in rubble, to Sudan and Senegal in Africa and so much more. There is a book in it!
Then with SCUBA diving I traveled to very many places, often looking to dive with sharks. This took me to Truk Lagoon and Palau in the North Pacific, to Egypt over a dozen times, all over the Caribbean again, to Indonesia and the Philippines, to Walkers Cay in the Bahamas and so on for well over 1,000 dives.
Cheap travel with Ryanair and Easyjet have made weekends away all over Europe a reality so, for instance I am just back from Amsterdam. But this is just one of countless such visits to a myriad of destinations.
One favourite travel company of mine was New Millenium Travel, who ran coach trips into Eastern Europe just after the fall of communism. I did many of these, sometimes back to back and got to see Poland, Hungary, Czech etc many times, long before the influence of the West arrived. I remember getting 8 pints (half liters) of Czech beer for £1.
And then there is Menorca where my parents were retired for 30 years. Sometimes I went there for as long as a month at a time and sometimes I went there 6 times a year. I kept a whole set of diving gear out there and was a very regular customer of Salgar Diving, eventually taking the lead for many dives myself and also spending a lot of time in underwater caves and caverns.
The photos above are of the Cook Islands in the South Pacific, Havana in Cuba and Egypt.