Essaouira – fabulous fish
Essaouira, Morocco's largest fishing port. Buy your fish at the harbour, fresh from the catch and have it grilled within minutes.
Gone but not forgotten – Chiang Mai cemeteries
Each culture has its own way of respecting their dearly departed, from the extravagance of the Chinese to the simplicity of a Muslim funeral, but however it's done, you can't take anything with you.
The wonderful English pudding
Foreigners might laugh at English cuisine, but they will never, even in their wildest gastronomical dreams, match the wonderful English pudding!
Taking the Strain – by mule in the High Atlas Mountains
There comes a time when we all have to realise age is creeping up on us. Mine was when I was faced with a steep walk up the mountainside from Imlil in the foothills of the High Atlas Mountains to my hotel high above.
Extremadura, cathedrals to cadillacs
A pair of ancient cathedrals in Plasencia and a museum of fantastical motors in Hervás; two contrary sides to Spain's Extremadura.
Agafay Desert, a desert of stones
Despite its name, the Agafay Desert is not the sand desert of Sahara and Lawrence of Arabia fame, more a vast, undulating, stony landscape crisscrossed with tracks and dusty roads, cut through with dry riverbeds.