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I attempted in vain to move my blazer hem over the mayonnaise stain that now marked my lower crotch on my beige chinos. The President offered his hand:

With a single shot fired by a repressive government on a population intent on revolution, the tranquillity and fragile reputation of an emerging travel destination is shattered.

Only fifty years ago Koh Samui was a very different island.

After being warned that an evening as a lone traveller on the night train from Budapest to Sofia was inadvisable I had been sure to book a private cabin.

“I love it here,” said the old American lady, “this is the 3rd time I have visited.”

It was my last day in Ilmenau, more than 10.000 km away from my hometown Jakarta, Indonesia. I have been there for nine days to participate in International Student Week in Ilmenau, held by Technische...

My husband and I went on a Bus Tour through Europe, and we finished off our holiday in Rome, staying another 10 days...

You'd have thought the gnarled, snaggle-toothed old man in his tiny wood-and-tin shack was several days' trek from the nearest village, such was the aura of isolation about the place.

The sound of gongs sounded from the speakers on the left and right betang (long house) in the hill of village of Sadaniang, Sadaniang District, Pontianak Regency, West Borneo, Indonesia, on Wednesday, May, 4th, 2011.

Sozzled, pissed, twisted: just some of the words which could be used to describe my state when I first met Pablo. I had just been told that by the volunteer organisation for whom I had flown all the way to Nicaragua...