All Around the World (Part Two)

 With things remaining deathly quiet we reach again into the past
hoping, like Part One, that All Our Yesterdays meets with approval!

CHINA GIRL - David Bowie
The Great Wall
I could escape this feeling, with my China girl
I feel a wreck without my, little China girl
I hear her heart beating, loud as thunder
Saw the stars crashing
I'm a mess without my, little China girl

GIANT PANDA

TERRACOTTA ARMY
Xian

RED PANDA

GREAT BUDDHA STATUE

Leshan, Sichuan Provence

 AFRICA - TOTO

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless, longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti

CAPE TOWN

I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become

It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had (ooh, ooh)

 Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you

 To get here I had travelled alone from Johannesburg across to Swaziland, onward to Maputo, Mozambique and onward to the Mountain Kingdom of  Lesotho and then to Cape Town.
What a coincidence Jim the Medic was there too!!

CAMBODIA

Well he was Thailand based
She was an airforce wife
He used to fly weekends
It was the easy life
But then it turned around
And he began to change
She didn't wonder then
She didn't think it strange

 ANGKOR WAT

But then he got a call
He had to leave that night
He couldn't say too much
But it would be alright
He didn't need to pack
They'd meet the next night
He had a job to do
Flying to Cambodia

Kim Wilde

 With Billy Crumble

 Churning of the Sea of Milk
yet another battle of 
Good against Evil

LEON, FRANCE

is where Jim the Medic took me to celibrate my 60th birthday but not only that,
also to the ancient Roman Amphitheatre that is 

The Theatre Antiques

         Bitter Suite - Marillion

A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow
Not the regal creature of border caves
But the poor, misguided, directionless familiar
Of some obscure Scottish poet

The mist crawls from the canal
Like some primordial phantom of romance
To curl, under a cascade of neon pollen
While I sit tied to the phone like an expectant father
Your carnation will rot in a vase.

To see/hear
Robert Plant (ex-vocalist - Led Zeppelin - in white shirt) accompanied by his new band
The Honey Drippers
Don't let that fool you, he's a MEAN, MEAN man that Medic!

The sky was Bible black in Lyon when I met 

The Magdalene
She was paralyzed in a streetlight she refused to give her name

And a ring of violet bruises they were pinned upon her arm.
Two hundred francs for sanctuary and she led me by the hand
To a room of dancing shadows where all the heartache disappears
And from glowing tongues of candles I heard her whisper in my ear
"'J'entend ton coeur - J'entend ton coeur"
I can hear your, I can hear your, I can here your heart - hear your heart!

 Oh no, not more wine........ and who's paying for this lot?

and the Band played on!

A few days with
"MISS SAIGON"
originally Puccini's Madam Butterfly

The heat is on in Saigon is there a war going on?
Don't ask, I ain't gonna tell
Hey, Monsieur Chris, Monsieur John
You come to win Miss Saigon?

and

Ho Chi Minh
along with his cowardly brother
Chicken Chow Minh

Having been a Submariner for 6 years there was never even a sniff
of claustraphobia, but crawling those Viet Minh Tunnels changed all that!
What a Story - What a Waste of Lives on Both Sides!