Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

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

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

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

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

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

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.