- Visited the world’s smallest “country” (Vatican city)
- Walked along the great wall of China (well part of it anyway)
- Travelled on world’s fastest train (Maglev for Shanghai Pudong airport)
- Slept in the world’s (or certainly Europe’s) most bombed hotel (Europa, Belfast)
- Slept in a prison cell…well a former one (Hostel Celica, Ljubljana)
- Visited the towns and ghost town of Pripyat and stood outside Chernobyl reactor no.4
- Visited the Korean DMZ and peered into North Korea
- Had a coffee in Hitler and Trotsky’s favourite cafe (Cafe Central, Vienna)
- Worked in Malawi