Martine Bailey, from Chester

Would you give someone with ultra-sensitive teeth a sampling tour around the Hill Station factory?

That's what the typical teenage Gap Year is like. A waste. No appetite, no appreciation. At 47 I can make rich connections. My first leg would follow the Grand Tour from West to East. Naturally, my journey is also gastronomic: truffles, sachertorte, bollito misto, guinea fowl korma. Next, to Sri Lanka and the Far East. The Asia of my imagination, where my Javanese great-grandmother was born, is a sizzling pot of jungles and mystery, gamelan and shadow puppets, tamarind and roasted peanut. On to New Zealand and the Pacific - a violently beautiful landscape I dream of exploring with my recently emigrated son. He raves about the organic meats, pacific flavours and gorgeous wineries. I'd loop back via Japan - sampling ancient and hi-tech, temples and sushi, raw and pickled. As for appreciation - you need to have lived in the twin cage of wage-slave and motherhood to fully appreciate this opportunity. I'd write , recycle and share it. At last I've got the time, health and passion to explore. Like Hill Station, my mission is to take on the world.