I am certainly very pro-Europe.

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

I wonder if this reason is partly geographical, that talk radio is so much more successful in North America than in Britain? People who are very remote - I'm thinking of Newfoundland - feel very connected though the radio.

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'll always love Paraguay. It's this most exotic place configured out of the imagination, the whole country.Paraguay will always be a special place in my heart. I go back a long way. I first arrived as a refugee in 1982 from the Falklands War. So it was a safe haven then, and it has become something exotic since then. I feel like I'd like the dust to settle a little bit before going back.

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.