Travel

I once wrote that “Travel without fear is like meat without salt.” I have been obsessed with traveling since I about eleven (I still remember the magnetic force of the sellotaped school atlas), because of my insatiable curiosity about the world and its peoples. A journey without any fear is bland, like salt-less meat, or soup. I’ve never laughed, loved or cried so much as when traveling. Yes I’ve been scared, terrified a few times, but still very few regrets. Three years in Central Asia, two in the Middle East and six in Central and West Africa quietened the itch for a while: I am currently based in Oban on Scotland’s glorious West coast, working and writing. This is a pause, I’ll never stop gazing towards the horizon and the open road. where I often feel most at home… I will pack my bag again…..