WHEN ANGELS TRAVEL
BY RICHARD F. CHALLIS
FOREWORD
This should
have been called: "An Innocent Abroad". Mark Twain had no right to
use the title since he was a journalist when he made his famous tour. I, on the
other hand, was almost forty before I set out on my travels; until then I had
not been outside Great Britain,
and my longest sea trip was on the ferry across the Humber from Hull to Lincolnshire.
When I set
out, Europe was enduring one of its bad summers, but for a time, good weather
travelled with me, and a German acquaintance quoted: "Wenn Engel
verreisen, scheint die Sonne" - "When Angels travel, the sun
shines". This sounded so much more attractive than the alternative
explanation: "The Devil looks after his own", that I felt I should
use it - but really, this is the account of the travels of an innocent abroad.
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