For too many years worklife had me confined to commuter trains, desks and meeting rooms. And all the while the urge to travel - constrained by the annual leave allowance and frustrated in the knowledge that the years were relentlessly ticking by - was extending my list of coveted destinations.
In our youth we have a sense of immortality and we naively believe that the Earth's gems are laid out for us to visit, plunder, experience and repeat at will over an infinite lifetime. But age and wisdom eventually conspire, reality dawns and mild panic ensues. There's a very big world out there and ... full info