Lebanese Nuns Don't Ski

So what would you do if your wife ran off with a hairy truck driver?

A drunken moment of clarity sent the author out of his local pub in Oxfordshire down to the M40 motorway, armed with little more than a daypack and a fluorescent orange cardboard sign 'South Africa', in a half-baked attempt to put distance and perspective to his pain.

What started out as self-indulgent escapism quickly turned into an educational journey of other people's suffering and loss, which helped put personal events i...