A hat on the hippie trail -- How to escape without a passport -- A kayak called Amandla -- A shambolic departure from Chiswick -- Sand, mud & the Thames estuarty -- Fog, a tidal surge & a nudist colony -- Incongnito into the French canal system -- In the wake of Robert Louis Stevenson -- An anniversary dinner to remember -- Acqueducts & terror on the Rhone -- Avignon, a water rat & rosé -- Aigues-Mortes & a Vietnam lesson -- Being blasted by the Mistral -- Caribbean hopes & a hut off the Aigues-Mortes -- Jock of Gibraltor & the horror of Monte Cassino -- Important lessons in Morrocco -- Braving the seas and bells in the buff -- The magnificent Costa Brava & early warnings -- In fog without a compass -- Rough water & mutiny -- Farewell to Amandla, welcome to 3rd class rail -- No man is an island -- Heading south in a converted British Post Office van -- A car called HOPPERLI & the fate of the hat.