In his weekly column, Fakenham writer Jim Harding tells some stories about his travelling days… From a fairly early age, I heard the expression: “Travel broadens the mind.” It took me some years to explore the possibilities of this, based on the fact that, apart from cub and scout camps, our annual family seaside holidays were about the only form of travel I then enjoyed. We, like most of our neighbours, did not own a car. I had to wait until my late teens to take off on my own and discover a bit more of England and parts of Scotland. In the 1950s and ‘60s era, hitch-hiking was a popular way t…