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His intellectual curiosity leads him to fascinating parts of the world, often in interesting ways - across the Atlantic in a banana boat, for example.
Take a banana boat from the Kent coast to the Dominican Republic, Panama and Costa Rica and back.
I met him on a banana boat in which I was working my passage from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro.
Dorothy loved travel and thought nothing of sleeping on a luggage rack or the deck of a banana boat.
He vividly describes the small villages, markets, white sands and banana boats of Jamaica.