In 1975, at 20-something, John, a New Zealander, set out to travel: first to UK and Europe via Hong Kong and Israel; later to the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc; East and West Berlin; to Jimmy Carter’s America and to Mexico; to Thatcher’s Britain, Tyneside and Durham; Ceausescu's Romania; Spain under Franco, Portugal in revolution; Denmark, Greece and Morocco. At every stop John sent postcards and letters home to expectant parents. The postcards, their messages, images and even stamps, are reproduced – a window on a past life in a different world.