'Following the Drum 'is the story of forty years spent mainly overseas. Cyprus in the aftermath of the EOKA uprising,Singapore when Saigon fell. Berlin at the height of the Cold War, Malta and much of West Germany. As the plane touched down at Nicosia airport a blast of warm air enveloped me.This was the beginning of a whole new adventure. newly married, newly qualified as a nurse, a whole new set of adventures awaited me. In this, the sequel to 'Three Years in Starch' I am attempting to condense the next few years into 15 chapters.It was never my intention to spend most of my working life in a war zone, I just happened to marry a man with the wanderlust.