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Taking your mobile broadband dongle abroad? Be prepared. James Helliwell says that you need to do some research to avoid returning to a shocking data bill.

In America's deep south history is important. But Richard Calderwood finds ghosts in the night taking it a step too far.

When his hotel's plumbing problems force Tom Coote onto the backstreets of Mombasa he's beset by hustlers and hookers. Forget the standard safari in a pop-top matatu: this is where he meets Kenya's alpha predators.

It's not all grass skirts, alohas and surf on Oahu Island, finds Joe Henley, when he meets a cultish musician in the town of Haleiwa. His advice: stay for the songs, skip the sermon.

Retired Brits in Spain have lost the comfort of wealth. But Rosalind Horne finds you don't need money to relish the wild beauty of rural Asturias. 

In Colombia's kidnap capital Micol Kates lands a job teaching the children of the super-rich. But while they can ignore the poverty on every side of their sunkissed existence, he sees the city at every level.

In Bolivia Brendan van Son finds solitude, not by straying off the beaten path, but by stepping off the tour-group's daily schedule.

Simon Ramsden takes his life in his hands near Krabi as he tries Thailand's latest adventure sport, Deep Water Solo. It combines rock-climbing with tombstoning and looks great fun, but you've always got to worry when your guide won't do it.

During his travels in Egypt, from Cairo to Aswan, David Kingsley maintains a cultural cool. This all rather falls apart in Luxor, when he runs into some Aussies on the razzle.

Rome, the 'Eternal City', is one of Italy's biggest tourist attractions. But when Tim Bush arrives on his motorbike the first thing he notices is the insane traffic - and things don't get any better.