It's almost impossible not to fall in love with Tuscany in Italy - the history, the culture, the sights, and don't get us started on the food. From pizza to gelato...
It's hot, the kind of sticky heat that makes you wonder if you'll ever feel cold skin again.
And there are mozzies, so many mosquitoes that I don't see...
It's the children we notice first.
Sitting on a balcony outside a house in a tiny village in the mountains in Bhutan. Sitting at the top of a steep set of steps that look more like a ladder...
The clouds that are there one minute and gone the next. The soft glow of sunlight dancing across shallow terraces. This is what it is like to be in Nepal...
"You know the flooby dooby!" he looks at us in the beseeching way only a seven-year-old can.
A seven-year-old Ecuadorian boy with perfect English, even though his mum and dad barely speak the language...