A tour guide with Explore Worldwide for three years, he has led groups of mainly single travellers across Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. I suppose they thought it was a status symbol having an affair with the tour leader. You seem to know everything and lead an exciting life. His undeniable physical charms were made more potent by the fact that he waved his clients off at the airport. On the few occasions he did meet up with former clients , it was always a disappointment.
People are different out there.
It is impossible to recreate the sense of thrill and danger in a pub in Bognor. A fling with a local is very unlikely to end happily. Shirley Valentine, immortalised in the film of the same name, may be a figment of imagination, but she faces a very real dilemma when she leaves her unhappy marriage for the charms of a Greek taverna owner. Returning to her holiday island to start a new life with him, she finds she has fallen in love with a serial womaniser . Reality sets in as soon as the holiday is over.