My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts.

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

I'm somewhat antagonistic towards these various projects that charge $250,000 per person for the ability to be weightless for 3 minutes after being brought up from earth. I think there are such better uses for that money that i seriously question the ethics of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on space flights for extremely wealthy people.

Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!

I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.

I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.