Politics of me.

[afleitch]

That is quite refreshing to read.

I think your family are always your immediate influences on your politics to which you either conform, rebel or progress from. In my family I'm sort of 'Mr Opposite'; gay not striaght, Tory not Labour, atheist not Catholic, but my beliefs are less of a 'rebellion' and more of a progression; we broadly believe in the same things and in the same values but express them differently or believe that they are better defended or upheld by a different philosophy. Much of that comes down to my experience. My parents never went to university but did go to college as adults; they married and had kids at a young age, I've not. I don't have the same reverence for 'Labour and the working class' or the social bonds of the church or anything like that.

I had more time to think. I think that's something our generation is very privileged to have.

[afleitch]

I'm planning to go back next year and write a book, actually. "The South American Diet", which will be one third travel guide, one third cookbook, and one third memoir/travelogue.

I'll sell it to American housewives and make squillions. Maybe.

Sell it to the BBC and you get to recreate the trip with a camera crew