A Weekend Companion. Enjoy a travel tale and a cryptic crossword on each of the 53 weekends possible in a year.Unconventional, quirky and generally light-hearted, the tales range from circumnavigating the globe by cargo/passenger and migrant ships and driving an ageing car from Paris to Tehran over bad roads in winter and mostly at night, to hitchhiking in kilts around Europe. Selling patent medicine in rural Malaya in the early 1960s, surviving an earthquake and its aftermath in Tehran, and hearing of JFKs assassination from a Chinese gangster in Kuala Lumpur all feature.There are rants about unsatisfactory toilet blocks in caravan