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I marvel at the ability of the dog skipping ahead in front of me as I lean forward into my stride, lungs burning. She sends another scattering of dust into the air behind her as she scampers up the sun-scorched path ahead...

My bedside clock rang and with the sheer coincidence of the sirens from a passing-by ambulance, I startled and stared out of my little quaint hostel window.

If you harbour fond memories of afternoon tea in the UK circa 1950, surrounded by elderly aunties smelling faintly of Yardley’s lavender soap, with dainty sandwiches followed by fondant fancies and Victoria sponge...

I whipped off my top, stripped to the essentials and slipped on the most remarkable footwear. Nobody gave me a second glance.

When visiting the archaeological wonder of Petra, right in the heart of Jordan, it is impossible to not feel a bit like Indiana Jones.

We had been in Indian several weeks before our first attempted to watch the infamous Bollywood film. The theater experience, like everything else in India, was hectic and confusing.

This is the first time I have ever gone to Istanbul and what a mystical, exotic place it is with so many sights and sounds to see.

The weather can descend fast in Wyoming, especially as it did on that day near the Big Horns, past Shell Canyon along Highway 14, a stretch mostly populated by soulful, lonely ponies and otherwise empty fields.

People were banging on both sides of the train trying to get in, even as it started to more away sluggish at first from the overload, more people ran alongside desperate to get inside.

“I don’t think her mother taught her anything,” whispered Josefina to her daughter, Maria Santana, both of whom sat on the back step of the house smoking their pipes.