Autor/-in: Robert Grant

Ten days after leaving school, Robert Grant enlisted in the Scots Guards and progressed to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. A knee injury terminated his military career. After the epic journey described in Road to Ruins, he flew to Kenya and hitchhiked through Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa to Durban to sail to Australia. He has motor raced throughout Europe, including Le Mans, and competed in Mexico's Carrera Panamericana, Targa Tasmania and the Springbok Series in Southern Africa. Robert bought the name of the outerwear brand Puffa a few months after its inception, building it up to Royal Warrant qualification; the word, especially in the form 'puffa jacket', is now essentially a generic term. He now lives in Perthshire.