| Meet Fred Finn: world’s most travelled man |
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 Fred Finn, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is officially the world’s most travelled man with about five decades of roaming the globe, which have taken him to a whopping 136 different countries! During that time, he’s seen bomb threats and hijackers, met Russian presidents, flown with Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton, and visited some of the most obscure places on planet earth.We gleaned this interview on Skyscanner where he gave his travel tips, his recommended places to see before you die, and where he thinks the most beautiful women on earth are located. Are you really the world’s most travelled man? How did you get the title and when? Yes I am the world’s most travelled man. I got the recognition by the Guinness Book of Records and then the Guinness World Records way back in 1983. Guinness heard about me in the press, I then met with them and they verified that I was the most travelled person in the world. Why do you do so much travelling - business or pleasure? I worked for multinational companies setting up licenses for companies and governments to manufacture and sell products without the need to import and use up their foreign exchange. This has meant constant travelling around the globe to meet the people involved. You’ve been to a lot of places; can you name three that you would recommend everyone should visit before they die? Kenya - it has everything; 15000ft mountains on the equator with snow all year round; lakes like Lake Victoria which has brilliant fishing. Real wildlife, especially in the Masai Mara which joins the Serengeti and has the annual migration of animals which is on such a massive scale that it can be seen from space!The Seychelles has to be on my list for the best beaches on earth; there’s so many of them that they are never crowded and the diving and snorkelling is magnificent.The food is also delicious and you can even try fruit bat curry! I love Ukraine. It’s probably not on everyone’s favourite list but it has wonderful scenery, great people, mountains, sea resorts with beautiful, white sandy beaches and historical battle fields both in the Crimea and Poltava regions where Peter the Great defeated the Swedes 300 years ago in the Battle of Poltava. The food is great as mainly fresh produce and ingredients are used; the meat is amongst the best I have tasted and the fish is either straight out of the sea from the mighty River Dnieper, one the biggest rivers in Europe. It’s cheap delicious beer costs just 45 pence a litre, cigarettes are 50 pence (for 200!) and three course dinner for two with wine cognac plus live music is just 5-20 pounds. Add to all of this some of the most beautiful looking ladies on earth, and can see why Ukraine is on my list! Where are the worst places or experiences you’ve ever been/ I’ve experienced bombs on board; A flight to Hamburg with suspected hijackers, which meant we were hours late and missed meeting my (then) wife for dinner.She had flown in from NYC especially but I didn’t arrive at the hotel until three morning. When I told her what had happened she didn’t believe me, until she the read papers in the morning! Maybe why she is my ex-wife now. I was held under arrest in Tehran the revolution with a great friend Bob Ferguson (now Senior Vice President charge of catering services for Emirates). We eventually got to the airport by hiding on the floor of a car. We got the last BA flight out of Tehran to London - what cheer was raised when we crossed the border into Turkish airspace! Source: Skyscanner |