Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert in 1850s. Which sets them aside from their neighbors in a macabre way.

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

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

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 don't want to sell other people trips! I want to be there!

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

There is a very big difference between American and British travel journalism, and that's this whole business of the assisted or freebie trip. In Britain we are unashamed about any travel company paying for you to go and then writing about it. That's the only way we can do it. But I have tried the same in the States, and I can't write for any sizeable American newspaper because they tell you to do it on this basis.