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I will not forget.....the sweet Alphonso mango. I cannot forget…..children selling wares everywhere. I find it hard to forget…..open spaces becoming homes and toilets.

“The Hilux can be temperamental, the electrics need some work, but it’s the farm workhorse.” Isaac’s words rang in my ears.

Here we go again: grandpa's going to scruff us and shove a raw lizard in our mouths. Craig laughs at the memory, but he's quoting it as an example that now, as a father and grandfather himself, he's...

Klaus would sit still for hours. It became a game to see if he moved, like spot the difference. He would stare straight ahead, his hand resting on an ebony walking stick. Despite the stifling heat, he wore a navy blazer...

It was ten o’clock in the morning and already 27C. We clambered off the so called luxury sleeper bus bleary eyed and hungry. The only thing frequenting the hazy beach was the gaunt looking cows that...

Rogbonko Village Retreat was the furthest inland that I would venture on my trip to Sierra Leone, 4 hours and a world away from Freetown’s noisy gridlocked traffic, from the street-sellers of wares ranging from imitation...

Last summer I went to Zambia and Botswana for an adventure trip with an Italian tour operator. Unfortunately after three days I was already fed up with my noisy and litigious fellow travellers. Plus, I...

He slept with the dogs. His name was Willie and no-one seemed to know his last name. He wore nothing but blindingly white Y-Front underpants and he washed in the sea on Portsmouth Beach...

By the time the conquistadors arrived in Peru to conquer the Inca Empire civil war had depleted the reserves of the Inca’s army. Pizzaro took the Inca’s ruler (Atahualpa) captive and pillaged the capital city...

Singapore is a sterile city: antiseptic and unabiding, and runs like a well-oiled unbreakable system. Everyone goes about their business happy or not, everything in place, sky-scrapers look down...