I'm a 41 year old writer living in Plymouth in the UK. I have spent the past 23 years in the Royal Navy as a Medic and have found myself in some of the strangest situations I could ever imagine: My time in the 'mob' (including a lengthy stint as a company Medic with the Royal Marines) has taken me to both Arctic & Antarctic Circles, a shitty ditch or two in Northern Iraq and Turkey, a whole host of bars frequented by 'interesting ladies' throughout South America and the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. I've frozen my tits off, been piss wet through and pissed off in such Hell-holes as the Brecon Beacons and the Isle of Skye... I've thrown up and shat myself on the Syrian border, been held at gunpoint by Turkish soldiers, been chased by Russian Mafiain Cyprus, nearly drowned on a beach landing in Northern Scotland (idiot), hounded by pushy Christians, lost a bet on a rather one-sided fight between a Camel Spider and a Scorpion and stabbed by Gibraltarians. Yep... this is me :)