Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there.

My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect, they are no real part of it.

In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments.

This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves.

If you travel in countries like Morocco, and I say that because I have just come from Morocco, if people are shouting at each other in an argument, violence is not going to follow. That would be just so far removed.

People my age and younger do think much more towards Europe. We have to fill the gap sometime - we can't think we are an empire any longer after all.

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.