"Is that why Bhutan beckons? Is it the challenge to spend more time on mountains – geographical or metaphorical - aiming to live in harmony with nature and our neighbours and to seek goodness and enlightenment?"

Quite a review. Tim Fischer is one of the more interesting ex politicians around. As a mere Public Servant I sat next to him in Parliament House, during a demonstration of new fangled video hookup technology.

I think it was the day he was deposed as Deputy PM. Unfortunately I didn't talk to him.

Pete