"Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home ..."
- Jane Wilson-Howarth
"Living in the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next."
"Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we're stressed, just a little."
"getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn’t help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person."
"no-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you’ve survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity."
"a Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day."
"GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end."
"Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: "Things that start in the rain end well."
"I wished I could paint this ineffable beauty but I had never been artistic. I hadn’t even packed a camera, and my phone was out of charge. It didn’t matter. I just breathed in the feeling, savouring i..."
"We found a smooth inviting boulder under a vast banyan tree, and sat in companionable silence. There unexpectedly, on that rock, I saw the secret of contentment. True happiness is only ever possible i..."