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The number 25 bus journey will never be described in the guide books as, “a peerless travel experience”. It trundled into Brighton with every facet of its existence governed by dull predictability under the British...

From Lagos, Nigeria to Sikasso, Mali, by road, toddlers were in the bus. I didn’t pay attention to bleating goats strapped to the bus seats beside me. It was the screams of babies, I paid attention to.

A half-Mexican traveling man mocked me for my sometimes naïve demeanor. Making a sultry face and raising the pitch of his voice, he parodied, “I came here with my suitcase and my innocence.”

Before I meet my gruesome and untimely end, I have a few moments to ponder my predicament and reflect on how I came to be perched on a slat of wood in the Alaskan outback, pants round my ankles and about to be...

Blond-haired drunks donned their swimming trunks as they did their best Michael Jackson impressions. Sloppy girls fell all over the place regardless of whether they were wearing high heels or flip-flops.

From Marrakesh, situated on the dry plains of central Morocco, to the High Atlas Mountains is roughly a five hour drive depending on how insane your driver is. As the already too small roads turned to snaking...

My first few days in the Moroccan Sahara were uneventful, but at last we left for the part of the trip I was looking forward to most: camel riding in the Sahara. The first thought that popped into my mind...

The colours of street lamps and traffic wipe sideways across my face as I slump against the window. I can't sleep. Music that wouldn't qualify for the Eurovision Song Contest has been blaring from the moment we...

“Jump on the next swell,” a voice shouts from above. The side of the ship rises, opening a three metre gap of rusty hull between my head and the bottom of the rope ladder.

The man approaches me with a toothy, lascivious grin at the traffic lights—arm outstretched. Sighing, I reach into my pot of change and proffered him one Euro, at the same time activating the screen wash...