It was a cold, wet Sunday night in a remote corner of southeastern Europe. My friend Marc and I wandered the empty cobblestone streets of...

As the old taxi laboured its way up through the rundown streets of Santo Domingo, I gave the driver directions to the bus station. I'd...

I stared across at the semi-automatic rifle being pointed at me. Facing death wasn't what I'd planned for that afternoon, but now that I...

Sometimes you have to be careful when you start seeing the daughter of an overly-protective military man. Especially in a country where...

I'd chosen Belgrade for the nightlife. It was famed. The clubs, the girls, the cheap booze. I was expecting non-stop party from the off....

The morning was hot, I was hungover, and the countryside temple I was in was a long way from the airport where I needed to be only a few...

‘Even ze Queen of England would have to pay,’ he said with cold blue eyes narrowing further. My plea for reasoning was just hardening his...

I was told about Sapecho by the old cleaning lady of my La Paz hotel. I’d got so fucked off with my guidebook that I’d thrown it away....

A little green bird landed on my head, then hopped onto my finger, trembling as it chirped away, trying to tell me something. On my...

Never in my life had I seen so many mosquitoes. A blizzard of the bloodsuckers swarmed into the naked street lamps above, wave after wave...

'Did you sleep well last night?' said Moo with the usual grin on her face. 'Not really,' I said going into my current moans about the...

After an unusually overcast start, summer had finally arrived. It was now one of those blazing blue-sky days with the inside of the car a...