I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also evident that we in the West produce far more and throw away far more than the developing world, almost without thinking

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life