It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.