Hitchhiking to the Soviet Union from Manchester and then finding one's host's address in the Moscow suburbs couldn't be that hard, could it?
Borat the Movie put Kazakhstan on the map, but there is plenty more to discover about this oil-rich Central Asian country, which recently moved its capital.
Rwanda immediately after the genocide in 1994 will always be a special part of my life. Not for what I saw, but for what I experienced and felt. The people. The recovery. Nowhere was that feeling more poignant than at Nyamata Church.
In 2002, I accepted a position to go and work in Somalia. We took off in John Travolta's former private plane - which would never fly again - and a guard was soon offering to attack my injured ankle with a razor blade after our emergency landing. Those where the days...