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Imagine walking among the world’s greatest game herds and the Big 5 on the plains of Masai Mara, the ‘pink’ lake-Lake Nakuru, or even the Special 5 of Samburu.

We started our month in British Columbia with a wish list: eagle, moose, elk, orca, coyote, chipmunk, racoon, bear. In Vancouver we learned that bears were everywhere except in the heart of the cities, even suburban gardens were troubled by them.

Down Under in the Outer Barrier Reef, fish are wild, aggressive, and hungry. The sea creatures starve, and will do anything to kill. When large humans step foot into their territory, many could attack for their six o’clock dinner.

You’ve been in Orkney 1200 years but I’ve only been here three weeks. We both travelled a long way to get here – me 11,000 miles, you 1,200. My journey was by plane, train and boat, yours by long ship.

It was Tuesday at 2:36 PM when it all went black. Above, the grey skies mirrored the austerity of the crash. Below, a frenzy of helicopters and blood, of life and death, of trepidation.

Stepping onto the platform my girlfriend (at the time) and I realise we are literally at the end of the line. The locomotive(from the Harry Potter films) disappears into its own smoky haze with a shrill noise.

The gates of Hell have opened...so bring on the food and festivities its time to party with some hungry ghosts!

It had been over a week since I had immersed myself into Cairo culture, but was it the culture I was after? I had done all the touristy business, Pyramids( from the popular and grand Giza trio! to the lesser visited but more interesting area of Dashur the Red and Bent Pyramids!)

I arrived at Hua Lamphong station, in Bangkok, in good time to catch the 6.30am train to Nam Kok, stopping at Kwai station. Humidity was high, even at that early hour, and the station vendors were already out and about offering cooked fish and meats to early travellers.

“Mama mia, here I go again, my my how could I resist ya?” It was 2am on a Wednesday morning in June, I hadn’t slept for 19 hours and found myself singing accompanied by two Italian long-distance lorry drivers in the cab of their huge vehicle, carrying cows from France to Italy.