Quotes from Simon Reeve

A wandering minstrel came

Despite the willingness of people in Nagorno-Karabkh to wander through minefields, they seemed to be a surprisingly long-lived people.

More of us should try turning a break into a proper adventure with a healthy dose of purpose and meaning. It almost guarantees a lifetime of memories. You could follow a river from source to sea or start a trip in one location and then head to another, exploring along the way.

We are often sold a vision of the world as a dangerous and frightening place. In reality the world is friendly and astonishingly hospitable.

think the real Golden Age of travel is actually now, when it is cheaper and safer than ever. It's also a guaranteed way of tingling your senses, enhancing your life and gifting you a huge stock of memories, encounters and experiences.

He spent ten minutes pointing out it was a miracle she was even going out with me. 'Simon,' he added at the end, 'everyone should try to marry someone nicer than themselves.

If the style of my programmes was to be inspired by anyone else, I thought it had to be, of course, the great Michael Palin.

A shared seat, shared music; and then the chap next to him nodding his head to Bruce Springsteen. Michael never let anyone's situation define them. He started to break down barriers and helped a generation of viewers dismiss the stereotypes that had plagued our view of other cultures.

Our driver bumped the cars in front and behind us to make space, then we crossed on to the other side in our big 4x4 and started driving the wrong way up the motorway, dodging cars coming at us. I thought back to it afterwards and decided it had felt worryingly normal. I realised I'd been munching on a flapjack and Craig had been texting. I wondered if we were becoming just slightly too immune to risk.

But he didn't say anything, he just turned the lens on me. I waited for him to lead us in, but he said nothing. And then it struck me, one of those moments when a switch just flips in your head. Ah. So this is how it's going to be. I need to lead, and the camera will follow.

He had been on operations alongside his British counterparts and said that although American special forces teams had access to more resources, such as equipment, planes and satellites, the British were especially good because they endlessly ran through war-game scenarios. They practised, over and over. They prepared. 'Then when it all goes south,' said the American admiringly, 'they really know what to do.

His accountant, Itzhak Stern, who Schindler protected, consoled him by quoting the Jewish Talmud: 'He who saves one life, saves the World entire.' It said to me then, and still says to me today, that even when we can't do everything, we can still do something.

If you are caring for a young me, just listening is a huge support, but perhaps also remember the human mind is a powerful machine. Many years later I was with a young French special forces captain, in the most dangerous place in the world, on a base under attack from suicide bombers: 'People don't change when others tell them they should. People change when they tell themselves they must.

Marriage changed me. As it should. I signed myself up for a partnership.

He claimed it was spatchcocked squirrel, but it looked more like a rat that someone had splatted with a hammer, around the time Stonehenge was built, and had then left preserved in a peat bog. It was possibly the least appetising thing I have ever seen. But I was there for telly, so I had a bite. The 'squirrel' didn't taste any better than it looked.