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As we exit the minibus, a heavily Cuban-accented voice says, “You go. Down step.”

My first impressions of Kathmandu were nothing to write home about. Scenes of suicidal drivers hysterically tooting loud horns, buffalos crossing the road and open sewars reeking of stale urine did very little to...

“Francis,” I whispered across the hillside. At least I think I whispered.

The Summer of 2000 was not a good one for Memorable Travel Encounters. At least not pleasant ones, at least not at my airline, where the pilots and management locked horns in a labor dispute that made a mockery...

Our taxi pulls up in a narrow, dimly lit street next to a decrepit concrete building covered in graffiti – our destination. We step out onto the urine-streaked road and take in our surroundings...

South Africa was my dream tour destination and when an opportunity to visit one of its luxurious five star resorts presented itself, I couldn’t wait.

Quickly darting through the fiery black sand between a set of dunes I spy you sleeping

I attempted in vain to move my blazer hem over the mayonnaise stain that now marked my lower crotch on my beige chinos. The President offered his hand:

With a single shot fired by a repressive government on a population intent on revolution, the tranquillity and fragile reputation of an emerging travel destination is shattered.

Only fifty years ago Koh Samui was a very different island.