Cyril travelled to Japan after the war, “to see just what kind of people they were. I saw them at their worst, and their best.”
“They seemed to be quite a genuine people, but I still don’t know what to make of them, I don’t know,” he sighs.
Cyril travelled extensively throughout Australia as well, spending the winters for several years north of Cairns at a nudist camp - one he stumbled on by accident. “We didn’t know anything
about it all, we just went up there and saw people walking about without anything at all, and just never thought a word about it so we ended up doing the same thing.”
“There’d
be anything up to 40 or 50 people who completely discard their clothes. After a while no-one took any notice of us.”
Aside from travel, Cyril’s other great love is tennis. He nurtured young players, and himself competed at a few tournaments in England “without much success I might add, they were too classy there,” he laughs.