"Most moderately active children – as long as they have full stomachs – cope well with exotic experiences, but parents should get fit for their trip. Young children will expect their parents to be All ..."
- Jane Wilson-Howarth
"To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete."
"I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine."
"We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism."
"A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation."
"On life’s journey, every person met, every place, every new word, language, scent & sound changes the traveller a little: forms who they are and whom they become"
"The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart."
"… everything was fresh, green and particularly beautiful. Afternoon light, filtering between remnants of monsoon clouds, picked out gullies and spot-lit patches of forest and scrub on the convoluted r..."
"Living on the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next."
"The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life ..."