Benedict Allen gives you the impression that he hasn't done any research at all, and I am sure he has. And when he is off doing his ice dogs and that….

That's more about lifestyle [Peter Mayles], living abroad. It's about buying a donkey and house in south France, and that's a slightly different thin….

It never stops me from saying what I want to say about Ethiopia, the fact that a tour company is paid for me to go there. Book reviewers don't pay fo….

There is a very big difference between American and British travel journalism, and that's this whole business of the assisted or freebie trip. In Bri….

My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect, they are no real part of it..

I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Br….

I want people to laugh with me and Paraguay and Newfoundland, but I don't want to laugh at them. I hope in my books at the end of the day you come ac….

Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel..

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?.

Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings..

People my age and younger do think much more towards Europe. We have to fill the gap sometime - we can't think we are an empire any longer after all..

I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with me and email me, and I get qu….

The noise that we can expect in the future will only increase and we'll be wishing for rural Portugal or something like that..

We don't really listen to what the other person is saying. We have gotten used to information being in such a concentrated form all the time, and so ….

The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was interested in. And then people s….

There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing th….

I often think I would like to come even closer to home and write about somewhere like Wales, for example - which we in England tend to be a little sn….

My parents probably feel closer to the U.S. They feel America came to our rescue in the war and all that sort of thing. And for their generation the ….

I am always surprised to go into a bar in Boston and three televisions are playing different channels, all at once. We are constantly surprised by th….

I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite relieved to….

I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely - sometimes only the capit….