"I think one of the things that stays in memory is the way that you looked at things as a tourist at the same time as you were looking at things as a soldier and the two were not necessarily complementary. There was always this danger that you'd be, your attention would be diverted by the exotic things that you were seeing, countryside, people, all of those things and in that moment of loss of attention you'd miss the, you'd the miss the signals that you had to see, signals that you don't see when you arrive there initially like, let me illustrate. On one occasion we were driving down a road and it suddenly dawned on me that the people in the rice field were men and men don't work in rice fields. They only do the ploughing so if you see a group of people planting rice you might see one man if he's carrying the rice plants around but it's basically a woman's job and you have to develop those kind of instincts very quickly. So if your attention is diverted to the beauty of the scene as it were and the curiosities of things that you're looking at and you miss that the next thing could be a mine and you could be dead."

CAPTAIN ADRIAN ROBERTS