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There’s supposed to be something terribly romantic about the Alps. They’ve been attracting British tourists in ever-increasing numbers since Victorian times, when young men imbued with the confidence and...

Beneath crackling power lines in the stifling, prison-barred queues of Kazakh immigration, giving an inch meant a wave of people shoving past. Standing my ground, I blocked off the space with my luggage.

Undefined shapes emerged from a night’s restlessness, their damp sleeping bags not softened by emaciated sleeping mats, their tousled heads wondering why this four day trek in Peru had seemed like a good idea...

I surveyed the queue of fractious children and tired adults with a mix of dread and foreboding, “Who would I be sat next to in the confined compartment?” Likely candidates included the small boy who had been screaming...

All travelers have their stories of challenges faced and overcome. Of mountains climbed, of rivers crossed, of storms on land and perils on the sea. Tales of wild animals, of enemies and unrest, of...

I'm a coward. I've never denied it. I am neither proud nor ashamed of this fact. I don't watch horror films, I am scared of any creature that has more legs than me, I am the coat holder at fairgrounds and I am...

The driver glared at his unworthy passengers from under beetled brows, a look reminiscent of Jack Nicholson in “The Shining”. He spoke at me in rapid-fire local dialect, then shouted the same words, several times...

Forget Elm Street, the place I didn’t want to be on a cold, late-December holiday morning was Hollywood Boulevard. With nicknames like ‘Tinseltown’ and ‘Entertainment Capital of the World’, Hollywood is presumed to be...

Skegness....aka "Let's get a pie and a game of snooker before we go 'ome"

‘They picked up Rashid last week,’ began Tekeste, the FAO Country Director, ‘as you know. Yesterday they released him.’