With the exams and the long summer holidays only a few weeks away, Ellen and I made plans. I would buy one of the old motor-caravans that homeward-bound Australians and New Zealanders sold on the Earls Court Road, and in this we would visit Ellen's village in Wales, then return east for the car-ferry to France, then south towards the Mediterranean, earning money by grape-picking or however we could as we travelled down.