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

Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

My parents probably feel closer to the U.S. They feel America came to our rescue in the war and all that sort of thing. And for their generation the war still goes on. We still save food and little bits get scraped off and boiled out the next day.

American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an impressive line up and continual demand.

There are no young people who know how to debate, who know how to vote, and who know how to persuade people to vote. And you have seen this in Paraguay and they are reaping the harvest now of fifty years of dictatorship.

I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.

Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.