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My Norman CastleChristmas Day 1989
I’ve done it! So often we promise ourselves we’ll do something ‘sooner or later’, when the right moment comes, but it never happens. Travellers make a note of out-of-the-way places they want to return to, but more often than not they don’t. Well, I resolved more than a decade ago to come back to this remote castle in the middle of the Libyan Sahara, and here I am, with fresh motivation and a project I can’t wait to get started.
Incredibly, the echoes of the Australian desert are clearer and more urgent now, as if the continuity of the oceans were flowing on to a continuity of deserts. There’s a deep connection too between my Australian adventure and the Sahara. My own story, fundamental to the telling of the other biographical tale in these pages – a
