Taking into account that I have now traveled more than 110 villages, many of them multiple times, More or less every situation has happened to me “normally” happen to travellers, even though I have always been lucky enough not to find myself in really dangerous or serious situations. Indeed, the small difficulties that one finds oneself experiencing during travels, On the way back they then become a source of fun and chat.

I remember being summoned to a Yemeni court to defend our taxi driver who had had a small accident and as a result had been imprisoned with chains on his feet or fatigue (always ungrateful for me) Nepalese treks to Annapurna or the climb to the Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia with tent stays in the most isolated villages of the Omo valley. Perhaps what I remember with greatest anxiety, however, was a night on a train at the new border that had been created between Lithuania and Russia.

In January 93 when the USSR had dissolved and at 2 at night the drunken customs officers didn't accept the fact that we didn't have a visa to enter Russia since when we left the USSR still existed and no visas were needed between one country and another and they wanted to throw us off the train in our pajamas in the middle of the countryside with -20°C. Then 20 dollars solved the situation but it wasn't a good time.

Or when I left Moscow airport with the passport of one of my colleagues, given that we had mistakenly mistaken it in the morning when leaving the hotel and there was no one, in four very strict subsequent checks nothing was noticed except the Frankfurt gendarmes who continued to ask how I had managed to leave Russia with someone else's passport. In short, small things without damage.