Simon 'Blue' Robinson

So it adjusted tax, set tax laws at a low rate

That allowed people to go in and invest in the island, and there was a lot of banking there.

So finance was the route, which I thought about for a while, but it wasn't going to be a good fit.

My father is a Scotsman, and he travelled a lot before he came to Jersey and met Mum.

And he sat myself and my brother down and said, you know, Jersey's beautiful, it's very safe, it's a great place to be, but you must travel.

You must go and have a look.

You know, have an escape plan and come back with some funds, but please, please, you know, spread your wings a bit.

It's like living in a village.

You either stay or you go.

I did.

I left school at 16, went into a shipyard.

You know, school wasn't for me.

I wanted to use my hands.

I wanted to be around boats.

And then a friend made sure that I got a job in a TV company, a cable TV company.

just when cable TV was emerging.

And so I was part of that planning operation there.

And again, it wasn't a fit.

So I went to Kathmandu with a great friend and was really confronted by poverty and dark child mutilation I saw and heard of.

We were going through the back streets of Kathmandu and staying in houses and shelters and what have you.