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My adventure holiday turned into nine months of hell as a FARC hostage

My adventure holiday turned into nine months of hell as a FARC hostage Tom Hart Dyke © Paul Carter Tom Hart Dyke in his Lullingstone Castle garden - Paul Carter A lawless wilderness straddling the border between Colombia and Panama, the Darien Gap is the only break in the 19,000-mile  Pan-American Highway which connects Alaska with Argentina. In 2000, horticulturalist Tom Hart Dyke, heir to Kent’s Lullingstone Castle estate, spent nine months there, after being taken hostage by a group presumed to be FARC, the Marxist rebels which disbanded before returning as a political party. Last week the party announced that it’s changing its named to Comunes. Twenty years after his release, Tom explains how his captivity inspired Lullingstone Castle’s spectacular World Garden.

David Perkins obituary

Tributes paid to Bury s David Perkins who captained the QE2 | East Anglian Daily Times

Terry Waite David Perkins was the final captain of the QE2 - Credit: Supplied by family To be taught how to play backgammon by Omar Sharif, and to host and meet with such prominent individuals as HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, Nelson Mandela and Princess Diana does not normally fall to many of us. Yet such events formed a part of the career of David Perkins from Bury St Edmunds, who rose from deck officer cadet at the age of 18, to be appointed as the last captain of the world’s most famous passenger cruise liner, the QE2.  Captain Perkins was loved by all

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