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

The noise that we can expect in the future will only increase and we'll be wishing for rural Portugal or something like that.

I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with me and email me, and I get quite a few I suppose.

I have to be careful not to visit one place right after the other and write one book after the other. Because I fear writing the same book all over again. That's why I am taking a break and doing something different this time.

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

I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely - sometimes only the capitol city.

I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.