Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

Recently, travel has become more accessible and affordable. The exclusivity of resort collections is beginning to lessen as more warm-weather seekers are planning winter getaways. Resort collections also provide a form of escape to those who may not be heading south but simply must update their winter wardrobes.

The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.

It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.