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I was in a poorly lit street in San Salvador; I hadn't a clue where exactly. This was something of a problem. El Salvador has one of the highest murder rates in the world and most of these homicides occur in the shadowy...

There is a reason why our marriage vows include the pessimistic comparison of “for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part.”

Wait! Something is wrong”, these four words can get a brave heart also racing, and here they were whispered to me. Standing on one end of Piazza Le Boffe, my heart just stopped and I turned back and looked at my...

A team of NASA planetary scientists invited me to join them as a journalist to study a rare volcano in Ethiopia. My wife went because she would not be left behind.

Sometimes, when I'm in Venice, I hate it. The food is less than average. In summer it smells, winter it floods. It is a tourist trap of the highest proportions. Nobody really lives there anymore.

I went along to the planning meeting anyway. Why would I want to camp in a dome tent for 7 days, in a game reserve that has seen better days, where the facilities are rudimentary at best, in Zimbabwe...

There air seemed more see-through than usual. We were the only people for miles, and ready for New Years Eve in the Peruvian Andes. We spent the day exploring Huascarán National Park, getting hyped about...

They pitched Mount Seorak to me as a two-hour stroll through the woods crowned by a splash in a creek. I had visions of wood nymphs bathing behind glittering falls (perhaps my first mistake was to liken South Korea...

We were desperate. A friend and I had just spent an excitingly tense day at Wimbledon, observing the familiar ritual of a British tennis player being put to the slaughter. We had just celebrated the milestone...

As I gazed out over the still waters below, I felt the characteristic sensation of my knees beginning to knock.