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As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a traveller; a creature of the road.

Certain questions haunt me and I think I travel to find my answers: to meet and to know, to ask and to ask again. The Holy Lands call me back, Egypt feels like an old friend and the open spaces of my memories remind me why I move. Why I must.

I’m happiest in dusty places, where the roads are long and rarely flat, where maps are vague, and silence still howls against the digital tide. I’ve travelled alone, in love, with friends and with family, always to visit people, to meet language; to sit with strangers and leave as friends, to tell stories and have them told to me. A quiet conversation in a roadside café can teach more than a thousand guidebooks.

I will always be restless. My rucksack will always be half packed. Had I been born in another time, I might have been an explorer, a soldier of fortune. Instead, I just ‘go’—to learn, to witness, to hold onto what I can before it fades. Because travel, at its best, isn’t about passing through. It’s about paying attention.

Sandy tracks, Damaraland, Namibia
Damaraland, Namibia

Self-Drive Across Namibia

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Experiences

Here are some of the experiences I’ve enjoed the most.

Polar Bear on Ice, Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen

Out of Nothing

48 hours ago, searching the fast ice for polar bears, we were blessed with the rarest of sightings: a mother with two ‘in-year’ cubs. Well fed, content. Eyes and noses, nine black dots standing out in the pristine snow, playing familial games against a mountain backdrop in a balmy bath of glorious sunlight.

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Stairway in the blue medina of Chefchaouen, Morocco, Tetouan
Tangier, Morocco

Breakfast: the Most Important Meal of the Day

Staying at La Fiermontina Ocean, the exquisite eco-resort 45 minutes south of Tangier, I was invited, along with other guests, to take a traditional Moroccan breakfast in the village adjacent to the property.

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