Life experiences and learning with a "hop" from education to his first real job, including traveling around the world for Intercontinental Hotels Corporation, the "skip" to other corporate hospitality businesses, and the "jump" into the entrepreneurial world. This included a successful hotel management buy-in and exit, followed by angel investing and developing a portfolio of early stage businesses that have been listed on the UK alternative investment market. This book contains over two hundred photographs from around the world and describes the many unusual travel experiences while working and traveling overseas.