Vic Heaney was born in 1940, in Blackpool, Lancashire. He was a grammar school boy but "ran away" to sea.He has been a ship's Radio Officer, a Civil Servant, a Regional Manager for a computer manufacturer and the founder of a very successful business.In his spare time he has been a writer, a political animal, a competitive runner, and a not so competitive squash player.He is an avid reader, a keen but hopeless guitar player and, when he gets the time, will be a painter of animals, especially wolves, dolphins and horses.Vic lives in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, in a place some people call paradise.In 2010, to celebrate his 70th birthday, Vic walked, in 70 days, from his current home in the South of France to the house of his birth in Northern England. The walk was to raise funds for pancreatic cancer research. His first book was "Vic's Big Walk from SW France to NW England" . His second book is "Living In The Real Cyprus". Both books are available in paperback and e-book form. Other books are planned.The proceeds from all his books go direct to pancreatic cancer research.