Must run and have my welcome cocktail, by the pool, next to the beach. As Nancy says, I need a drink that's screaming for a little umbrella.

1st night on the land. A glorious dawn heralded by nature's finest symphony, mostly of the flying variety with a bovine and poultry chorus.

China is quite a culture shock after the wilds of the Mongolia. But headed out to a section of the Great Wall, about a 3 hr drive away...

Sacred Blue Lake, where Genghis Khan married his first and favourite wife, Borte, and was pronounced mighty head of the Mongol Empire...

Just hiked 25 miles along the Pembrokeshire coast with four friends, and to say it was stunning would be an understatement…

My compartment companions, 7 delightful young men from Hyderabad, on their way to Goa for the 1st time. Laughing and joking the whole way.

A repeating scenario in my life is where I find myself on remote, long, pot-holed, badly sign-posted roads that lead to glorious places...