Island Life Magazine Ltd February/March 2009 | Page 59

INTERVIEW
The train idea being scuppered, their
only course of action was to drive to
Bandar-Abbas, a southern port on the
Gulf, to investigate being shipped to India.
As they approached the town looking for
somewhere to stay they attracted more and
more young outriders, who were swerving
in and around the car, even hanging onto
Chitty. “It was really scary,” says Nick. “If
we’d hit one of them we’d have been in for
the high jump.”
“We kept making pointy signs with