No way back!

Terence Tracey is the youngest of seventeen children from an Irish-Catholic family. On completing school, he entered the hospitality trade as a trainee hotel manager, in the world-famous Towers Hotel in County Kerry, Ireland. He then worked in catering establishments in Paris, where he also took up photography and writing poetry. He moved to South Africa in the early eighties where he worked for the hotel chains Southern Suns and Sun International for ten years before starting his own restaurant in Johannesburg. A few years later, he joined the First National Bank group, retiring at age fifty to return to the restaurant industry. As a child, Terence was completely un-academic and even quite a disruptive pupil for the most part but, remarkably, he does recall his teachers complimenting his writing ability. He always had a keen interest in cars and enjoyed many successes competing in historic racing events in South Africa. Terence lives with his wife and three children in Randburg, South Africa.