Love travel, hate flying - so feel the fear and do it anyway. Travelled loads, not all in one go like some lucky buggers on here. Now too loaded down with commitments to be able to drop everything and disappear for a year, Longest trip was after being made redundant the 1st time - Bangkok, down through Peninsular Malaysia, across to Sumatra and down through Java to Bali and then to Oz - great trip! Except for the kidney stones in Ubud (nearly died). Regular visitor to Hungary - my folks live in Budapest. Speak five languages (thought not fluently) - Japanese, Indonesian, Hungarian, German and ... full info