Dugald Bruce Lockhart

We went downstairs and we played a game of quarters and we got hammered on the rest of the wild Turkey.

I missed Paris, missed Naxos.

And I woke up basically in Santorini with them.

And I then hung out with them for two, for two weeks.

And these Aussies were super, super cool.

And my experience of them was,

combined with this hero worship I had as a young boy for this Ricky character, it merged.

And then there was a third element of Ricky.

He wasn't Australian at all.

He was an English guy that I knew out there who was very much like Ricky.

he always drew attention from the girls.

And I was like, how do you do it?

There was a green 20-year-old.

And he said, well, the trick is you just go, and this is very un-Ricky, in fact, in the book, you just go to a bar and read a book and they'll come to you.

Don't pursue them.

And I just thought he was super cool.

He also said to me, and by the way, beer doesn't make you fat.

If you drink just beer and don't eat, you will stay thin.

And I remember thinking, these are wise words of wisdom.

But it was the effect he had on me.