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We scramble and slip down steep boulders covered with moss and rainforest mildew. The mixture of sweat and sunscreen stings my eyes.

It is a photograph I never took. A man of my age gazing warily down one of the many dusty seen better days streets in the half light before dawn.

There was a gaping void in the door of the unreserved train carriage we had managed to force our way into and no space was available aside from the floor.

And when you travel, you open new doors into the magnanimity of the world. You get to see things from a different vantage point.

Can the sounds of travel take your breath away. I am sitting on the terrace of my house in Stupava, 20 ks north of Bratislava, Slovakia.

Upon reaching our campsite at Geech, 3600m above sea level and part of the Simien Mountains in Ethiopia, I collapsed into a chair and decided that I was not moving for the rest of the evening

I was tired. A long day spent travelling the pink city of Jaipur and its beautiful palaces in the scorching sun had bought fatigue over me and my friends.

Wandering a little too casually through an ancient Athenian site, my sightseeing companion began to clamber over the Ancient Greek walls.

What was the name of the bay we were just in, the one with the mussel farm. I look up and ask Penny, the Pelorus Express Mail Boats second in command.