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After an abortive attempt at romance in Paris, I left suddenly for Greece. For as long as my travel memory, I’d wanted to go there. It would be an affair with place. The train departed near midnight.

One of the worst journeys of my life was on a flight from Brisbane to Bangkok… My travelling companions were friend Sylvia, my twenty year old daughter Katrina and her friend Kerri.

The banana leaves wilted in the noon sun and assumed the features of the faces that they covered. Temporary shrouds offering a hint of dignity to the row of corpses that lay by the roadside.

Ozzy Osbourne would have loved this, but I was not Ozzy.

When you get hurt, you feel pain in your body. But when your heart is hurt, how do you feel? Heart is something that cannot be counted by a number.

When I had occasion to cross the English Channel from Le Havre to Southampton, I was not only heavy with child, but full of delight because I was finally on my way to South Africa after several anxious months...

As gangly nineteen year olds, Jon Seal and his mate Brains have cycled two thousand miles through Europe, arriving in Finland. They are only two days away from their destination - the Arctic Circle.

“The government always lies. It’s all corrupt. Today, the thermometer in my garden shattered, yet they tell us it’s 32°c. That’s just how it is here. Biscuit?”

It was the second car-ride to the airport that day; neither of my parents spoke. The air inside was thick with unspoken resentment. They had laughed at me the night before when asked if I needed a passport to fly to Scotland.

Picture this: a beautifully sunny day, spent indoors, with no physical human contact, surrounded by masses of books as you attempt to cram for your university exams.