Steak, soft drinks, even dental work … was there anything our writer's landlady couldn't obtain on Havana's black market?

A beet field in East Yorkshire is the climax of travel writer Tim Moore's road trip around Britain's most unloved spots

The author tells of the journey of a lifetime down the Andes, from the tropics of Venezuela to the icy tip of Patagonia

Meet La Santa Muerte – a goddess worshipped with offerings of cigarettes and alcohol in one of Mexico City's most notorious barrios

The Surrey car dealer was part of the first group to walk the Nepal leg of what will be the 4,500km Great Himalaya Trail

On Maui, the country singer joins Hawaii's paniolo cowboys on a ride through the clouds into the crater of the huge Haleakala volcano

Rachel Polonsky, the winner of the Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2011, remembers living through the final Soviet winter of 1990 in St Petersburg – then Leningrad – and feeling the world turn upside down

Stopping at Cape Wrath, the north-west tip of Britain, on his round-Britain bike ride, Mike Carter found wild winds, a warm welcome and a wonderful sense of calm

Dartmoor's Lych Way, a 'corpse road' in medieval times, is one of Britain's spookiest walks – especially if you do it at night

The comedian recalls a train trip to Bruges where no one had a gun and no one got shot, and great fun was had by all

In the chaos of war in Sierra Leone, the author discovered laughter amongst the fear – thanks to an encounter with the Beggar King

Spinalonga, the last leper colony in Europe, inspired a bestseller – but meeting ex-sufferer Manoli proved even more inspiring

The leader of a record-breaking polar expedition recalls how she so nearly didn't make it to the south pole

Comedian Mark Thomas found his idea of rambling along the Israeli barrier in the West Bank even more fraught than it sounds