Press Release: Norwich author has facebook group with almost 80,000 members

 

Press Release: Norwich author has facebook group with almost 80,000 members
7 March 2024

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In 2014, Norwich author and UEA Chemistry graduate published his first of many book on Amazon:  "All About My Hat The Hippy Trail 1972".

The book, strangely telling from the point of view of a"hat", recounts Buffry's experience after graduation and setting out eastwards in a small van with several other graduates and little money.  After several months he arrived in India via Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, meeting many people of different cultures, religions and lifestyles on the way, a journey where drugs became an integral part of the experience.

Such a journey would be near-impossible today, with many more dangers than in 1972, despite that we now have the likes of mobile phone and the internet, guide books and gurus,

Alun Buffry says: "I did not set off either to run away or to find anything but simply wanted to travel and see part of this wonderful world.

"Although I ended up ill with dysentery and infectious hepatitis, penniless and hospitalised in Delhi, Kabul and Tehran, I would not swap the life-changing experience for anything. Now at 74 years, I look back in amazement that I actually survived.

"In 2015, after writing my memories of those days, I founded a Facebook group called 60s, '70s &' 80s Trails to India and Beyond. Remarkably it now has almost 80,000 members from all over the world and contains a wealth of stories and pictures from people that made similar journeys and people that live in the countries we visited."

Since the publication of the book, Buffry has written over a dozen more, recounting his other travels and experiences including his time in prison for cannabis, poetry and science fiction. Having taught himself to format and present his books, he has also offered a free service encouraging others to tell their own stories, most of which are also on Amazon and Kindle and linked though his web sire at ABeFree Publishing.

Contact Alun Buffry at alun@buffry.org.uk or find him easily on Facebook.

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