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Locality: Terrigal, New South Wales

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22.01.2022 The tentative cover of my third title, book is now complete just a couple of edits before it heads to the printer. A few excerpts to follow.

15.01.2022 My third book, about Berlin's dark past is now down to the wire. A few more tweaks to the manuscript and some artwork. Neville Taylor, an artist friend has come up with a few drawings to help with the story telling. A random example: The Oberländer family lived on the right side of Hohenzollerndamm 4. Fritz, listed as a commercial employee and later as a merchant was born in 1898 in Berlin. His wife Ilse, some sixteen years his junior was also a Berliner coming from a famil...y of modest beginnings who rose to prosperity in the tobacco and cigarette industry. The Oberländer's had a young family, Edith born 1936, Mathel born 1939 and Berl, 1940. The family suffered during the Nazi oppression, as did all Jews. Fritz was a forced labourer, working for 72 Reichspfennigen an hour, earning between 30 and 40RM per week to house and feed a family of five. Their apartment shrunk to two rooms, it was without a kitchen. As Fritz struggled to provide for his immediate family, he would have also been concerned for his mother Emma, sister Flora, brother Heinz and Aunt Cacillie who lived under similar circumstances just twenty minutes walk away at Mackensenstrasse 5, today Else-Lasker-Schuler-Str 5 which still stands, one of many in a lower socio-economical area of Berlin. Fritz also had a cousin, Hanni Weissenberg, the grand- daughter of Cacillie who lived on Solmsstrasse in the Kruesberg area of Berlin. Her father, Felix was a photographer and her mother, Alice a housewife. Their household had a liberal attitude to life, her father Felix once said, 'We are German, religion is a private matter.' Once the war started Felix was forced to work in farming, but died soon afterwards through fatigue, he was fifty-seven. Alice's heart was broken, her health declined and she died in April 1942 for lack of medical assistance, she was fifty-two years of age. Hanni later admitted that she was happy that her parents died early and missed out on what was in store for them. Fritz, Ilse, Hanni watched as members of their family were taken and deported, first it was Heinz on the 15th of August, 1942 forced aboard a train at Moabit freight station with 1,002 others. Transport 25 took three days to reach Riga, Latvia where they were all murdered in nearby Rumbula forest, a killing ground for around 25,000 Jews. Heinz was just twenty years old. Aunt Cacillie was next, arrested by the Gestapo, placed among 1,000 others on the 3rd large age transport to Theresienstadt on the 3rd of October 1942. She was seventy-nine years old. An inventory of her property was made on December 12, 1942. The state took, 50RM, a bed, a closet, two broken hallstands, a table and blanket, two chairs, a laundry basket, a hanging lamp and some clothes. Her room was left bare, soon to be given to others. See more

07.01.2022 A Canadian reader messaged me after reading my, Crossing Continents with Top Deck. Hello Trevor, Just finished your book this morning and I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed reading Crossing Continents with Top Deck. What an epic journey! I know it sounds a bit corny but it really did transform me to another place and time. I really needed to go somewhere ...even if I never left home to do it. You managed to transform me. Thanks for that. ... Your story was actually very cathartic on a few levels. For decades I have felt that I really missed out on doing this amazing journey. The paths we take, or inadvertently, that are chosen for us, had me ending up in a very different direction and hemisphere. I always thought about that elusive Overland adventure. If I’d followed that course, how differently would my life unfolded? Thoughts to ponder indeed. I am totally in awe in the ability you, and the crew of Top Deck, demonstrated in driving temperamental double deckers, constant repair and maintenance, and navigating uncharted territories. Plus being responsible for a large group of travellers to boot. Shoestring budgets. Political dysfunction. Language barriers. Primitive roadways. Long, long hours. Stifling heat and numbing cold. Questionable resources. Odd assortment of punters. Illness/injury. Disharmony. All this and you were in your early 20’s. Certainly had you growing up very quickly. I find it all pretty gobsmacking. So I find myself wondering would I have managed being a punter on the Kathmandu to London trek? Hmmm. Before I read your book... I would have said I had what it takes. I was pretty plucky in my early 20’s. I certainly survived a 2 month Contiki Camping trip followed by a 45 day Top Deck Russia/Scandi tour in 1982. Neither was a luxury trip in any way, shape or form. Then trekking across New Zealand and Australian. Hitchhiking and hosteling. But the Overland was certainly a different beast. Chalk and cheese you could say. As much as I hate to admit this, I don’t think I would have lasted. I really enjoyed reading about the various locales. Such romantic images and ancient history. But honestly... It sounded wonderful, on many levels, but so challenging as well. Huge respect to you that did! Do you find yourself looking back at that time and wondering how you managed it as well? How did you find normal life after such an ongoing adventure? Was it welcome or barely tolerable? After driving those temperamental old buses, what was it like to drive a normal car? What were things that you will always look back on fondly and other experiences that are best left in the past? Love that you married your favourite punter as well. Such a wonderful conclusion. Do you both reminisce a lot about that time and your courtship? Certainly a good story to tell your children and grandchildren. Anyway just wanted to say thank you for a great story. Really enjoyed it. Cheers, Sonya

05.01.2022 Old Forster Police stories, I have another not mentioned in my book, 'The Cops, not just a job' https://www.facebook.com/TrickyPress available at Forster, Tuncurry & Taree West News Agencies. Also online at www.trickypress.com.au. My previous story involved a pursuit, as does this, both in Tuncurry and both short and sweet. but this was a part of a much bigger story. In 1999 the name of a newcomer to the area was getting a mention. I'll call him John, he had recently spent a...Continue reading

04.01.2022 Pretty impressed, my grandson Flynn having a read of my second book, The Cops, not just a job.