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I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.

Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.

I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

I went to India, lived, and studied.

I arrived in Bangkok in 1980: I was 23 years old, and it changed my life.

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.