A GLOBETROTTER has wound the clock back to relive an important spell in his life.

Kenny Maule has spent time in places all over the world, from Barbados and Colombia to China and Russia.

However, he picked out a four-year spell as a lifeguard on the Cornish coast for his debut book.

All Summer Long focuses on the 70-year-old’s time on the area’s beaches during the ‘swinging’ ’60s and ’70s, which, according to publishers, saw him “revelling in the liberating glories of surf, sand and their sensualities”.

He said: “The funny thing is I have spent my life flying and people always ask me to write a book about flying and different places in my life.

“There is a better story when I was lifeguarding.

“It is more human and varied in some ways so I thought I would write about that, which I did.

“Sometimes anecdotes come up when you have got a pint in your hand and somebody mentions something and it reminds you of something.

“Often in the book, I draw on these anecdotes that I remember.

“When you are younger, things stick in your memory for all your life.”

East Lothian Courier: Kenny Maule is reminiscing about a four-year spell in his life in his debut book

Kenny grew up in Fairlie, in Ayrshire, before swapping Scotland’s west coast for the south-west of England.

Water has played a key role in Kenny’s life, from surfing in Cornwall to becoming part of Dunbar Coastal Rowing Club.

A director of Dunbar Harbour Trust, he penned All Summer Long during lockdown and described it as “a wonderful coming of age”.

Whilst at university, he escaped westwards every summer to be a professional lifeguard on Sennen Beach in Whitesands Bay, West Cornwall.

After graduating, he spent six months as a teacher in Barbados, and three more months hitchhiking through the USA, Canada and Alaska, then overland through Central America to ‘hidden’ Popayan in the Andes of Colombia.

He would go on to learn to fly with British Airways and was later a flying instructor, working almost everywhere in the world, including China, Russia, France and India.

He said: “When I was about 13, I said to my mother: ‘We always seem to live in beautiful places.’

“We have moved around several times and she said: ‘Any fool can live in a horrible place.’

“Her attitude was ‘don’t try to get yourself the most wonderful house you can afford but the most beautiful area you can afford, even in the most humble dwelling’.”

All Summer Long is released at the end of the month, with the author pleased to say he had some positive reviews from family members.

The Dunbar resident said: “I’m suffering from imposter syndrome at the moment where I think it is not me and should not be me but the people who have read it say don’t feel bad because it is great.”