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 have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special - there was something about the style of the real thing that is immeasurable nicer than multiplexes.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

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

If I am seen as successful, it's all the more reason not to change - not to lose track of friends, not to be driven everywhere, not to go and get away from the world. That, to me, is real success: enjoying what you do, but being the same person.