The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

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

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.

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