Patrick Leigh Fermor died five years ago this month, aged 96, and though he claimed to be part Irish, he was a man of the world, who walked from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul in his teens, and who later became a great travel writer, says Michael Duggan

I was the school hippy. I grew my hair long and was into debating. I didn’t necessarily follow any of the other dictates of being a hippy.

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure