Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.