"That's a big bag of tins!" I said, as I was trying to decide if I should get an egg and cress sandwich or a cheese and tomato sandwich. "I'm single", came the melancholic reply. He was a handsome young man with glasses the rims as black as his long beard, which made him appear much older than his late teen years. I glanced over to the sales assistant behind the customer services counter, she looked back at me as if to say he won't be on his own for long. This...

Asha my Aegean blue Triumph Bonneville was parked in front of a wall of red bougainvillea interspersed with white tipped rose buds, sparrows played hide-and-seek amongst the foliage, and blue-black butterflies flitted between the flowers. An Iranian man in an open necked shirt and grey wide bottomed flares holding his son in his arms peered at the top of the tank, which listed the countries from Scotland to Nepal that I was riding through. He then looked ...