In 2006 Professor Noel Cox, an academic lawyer, spent four months in the United Kingdom on sabbatical. He also went to central Europe and North Africa on holiday, and spent some weeks on holiday in the UK. The book is from the edited diaries he kept during those months, giving a vivid account of his experiences visiting places old and new. Highlights include the Roman ruins at Leptis Magna - which, before the fall of the Libyan dictator Gaddafi, had few tourists visiting - and the cathedrals and palaces of Hungary.