"One year, Paul and I decided to go hitchhiking. It's something nobody would dream about these days. Firstly you'd probably be mugged before you got through the Mersey Tunnel, and secondly everybody's got cars and is already stuck in a traffic jam. I'd often gone down with my family down South to Devon, to Exmouth, so Paul and I decided to go there first.
"We didn't have much money. We found bed-and-breakfast places to stay. We got to one town, and we were walking down the street and it was getting dark. We saw a woman and said, 'Excuse me, do ...