Travel Writing Library

When I sent my friends my itinerary they scrutinized it and pointed out that I only had an hour to connect in Benin. Then came rhetorical questions about my sanity, what if I missed one of the connection flights?

As soon as I arrived in the centre of the old university town of Alcalá de Henares, my heart skipped a beat, my knees went wobbly and I felt like fainting (with desire). I was surrounded by policemen. Spanish policemen.

Climbing out of the door, I dangled my body out over the edge and embraced the chilling air on my skin as my heart raced. I looked straight ahead at the top of the Alps that seemed to cover as far into the distance as I could see, each all lightly covered in snow.

From the modern resorts of Cancún and Playa del Carmen, the mysteries of the Maya, the entrance to the underworld and the city that sparked the Mexican Revolution are in close proximity, yet centuries apart

The most amazing stillness I have experienced was in the Alatau mountains near Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan.

The swirling chocolate waters of Borneo’s Kinabatangan River are flanked by rainforest so dense that it is easy to forget the destruction wrought upon the country’s fragile ecosystem by the palm oil industry.

Experience the Grand Canyon from top to bottom, one step at a time.

They say to me, "Should you know yourself you would know all men." And I say, "Only when I seek all men shall I know myself." – Gibran Khalil Gibran

Punjab, India, after 10 nights of sleeping in third class trains.

There was nothing ahead except sand and sea on this notorious stretch of coastline dubbed ‘Doodsakker’ or ‘Acre of the Dead’ that is known to claim at least five vehicles per year.