Paul Waddington is a registered teacher and qualified nurse. He lives not far from London and works for a major pharmaceutical company training and teaching patients and nurses in home dialysis. He has travelled extensively, visiting Canada, Australia, (He was able to fly over the stunning Uluru at sunset and climb Sydney Harbor Bridge) Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Italy, the Canary Islands, France, Poland, and Iceland. He has travelled widely in the USA, travelling from Washington DC to San Francisco on the California Zepher, also visiting Florida,  New York, San Diego, Denver, Yosemite National Park, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon and facing the dangers of Death Valley in August. He has also travelled to far flung places within the UK, including the Outer Hebrides, the Orkney Islands, the Isle of Skye and the Isles of Scilly.