I read a lot of books never really without one I have been challenged a lot by my own lifestyle choices - living and working in communes & worker co-ops travelled a lot - Europe, China America. I guess the most 'new' was going to China before they opened up to the west. My friend and I were the only Europaens, everywhere we went and it was mind blastingly different. My friend a Health Visitor from Manchester wanted to close the whole country down - We gave a seminar to a symposium of Psychology and Psychiatry Lecturers who were hungry for all things Western and when we got there they - the lecturers were busy trying to clean the whole place up (thats mind blowing!) . I was also in East Berlin - when I was in West Germany, We were allowed to visit the East on a one day stamped permit. I was wearing cut down Levis and I was so' stared at 'for the whole day because the East Germans were so hungry for anything western.Something they hadnt previously been exposed too -