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So this is how Mary felt, I thought: Tired, worried, a bit desperate. Homeless. Only Mary had Joseph - and I was alone. I imagined Joseph would have reassured Mary. I’ll find somewhere.

The heavy August sun shines over the Ponte Scalzi as tourists pose for photos with the glittering water and picaresque boats skimming across its surface behind them. Squinting in the bright, unrelenting sunlight that...

We had to be weary of rock falls along the winding road up to Bokong Nature Reserve in the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho. At more than 3000m above sea level, the nature reserve is one of the highest in Africa.

The thing that strikes you about Rwanda is how green it is. As green as we were in March 1994.

July is a great month to go Kayak touring right? My husband and I spent a week in mid-July on the South coast finding great spots to kayak. We spent a day paddling around combo Island on Long Island, Nembe Bayelsa...

I woke up that day with a cloud of uncertainity hovering around my head.I didn't know where my life was carrying me.All I wanted to do was to travel,travel and travel and learn,learn and learn.

The program looked nice: three nights in a good hotel, transfer from and to the airport, one day on an uninhabited island, and the flight from Tokyo to Naha, on Okinawa's main island. For a short family trip...

We drove along a track of corrugated mud towards the river. Manjit, our driver, parked the car in a fog-bound clay pit, and disappeared into the wasteland with promises of an early morning chai. It was still dark.

The fingernails were longer than hygienically acceptable and what was crusted beneath them was a substance far more ominous than dried grease. There was no alley to flee to, no dumpster to dive in, and absolutely...

We shouldn’t be here, that was my only thought as we sat uncomfortably in the dark interior of the now precariously tilted jeep. Doors firmly locked but windows open slightly to try and mitigate the dead, suffocating heat.