Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

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

In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.