Y'know, a woman to look up to that's been around for so many years and never made a wrong footstep anywhere.
As for an itinerary, you won't go wrong following the footsteps of the late R. W. Apple Jr., who wrote about his return to the region in 2003, two decades after he bought a stone cottage vacation home in the Cotswolds town of Lechlade when he was the London bureau chief for The New York Times.
However, Ashley lost big points for immediately getting the words wrong and singing "footsteps" which prompted an immediate correction from Simon and then stumbled over the word every time it popped up in the tune.
And as Michela Wrong's "In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz" (Fourth Estate) appears to suggest, no single African country has taken the bizarre interface of ill-fated international lending and corrupt politics to the same extremes as Congo, the former Zaire.
After all, how can any company go wrong traveling in the footsteps of Apple?
Michela Wrong in her book In The Footsteps Of Mr Kurtz memorably describes Congo's population as being "marinated in humiliation".
Wrong, whose first book, "In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz," was a history of Congo under Mobutu Sese Seko, tracks the bumpy progress of Eritrea, from Italian colony to appendage of Haile Selassie's imperial Ethiopia to sovereign state.
On Monday Treasury Minister David Gauke said it was "morally wrong" to pay tradesmen in cash to avoid tax, following in the footsteps of his party's leader, David Cameron, who called Jimmy Carr's tax avoidance "morally wrong".
It is wrong to say people who want their democracy back are following in the footsteps of Donald Trump".
Iran's hard-line daily Vatan-e Emruz under a headline "Cameron's success; Sound of Scotland's footsteps" notes that "Britain's most unpredictable elections have proved all poll predictions wrong except one; which is that the louder than ever sound of footsteps of Scotland's independence will be heard in Westminster".
