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“Some days I had to walk out of the room and leave Sarah to cry, in case I picked her up and threw her across the room.” Candy was talking about her experience with Post Natal Depression which had lasted for six months after her baby was born. “I found it difficult to bond with…

There are three ways of having your hair cut in Hong Kong. You can make an appointment with Mr Larry in his glass and chrome hair studio on the thirty- fifth floor overlooking Victoria harbour. He comes highly recommended by several of the British wives you’ve met, who just love him. Here, at the first…

It’s just after daybreak on the River Li in Guangxi, Southern China, and we’re pushing our bikes onto a squat river barge that will take Pete and me down this brown, slow-flowing river to the ancient village of Xing Ping. We hoist the bikes on the roof and take our places on the deck which…

Drive an hour south of Cape Town, to the tip of the Peninsula, and you’ll find Scarborough, a random scattering of houses and shacks perched between the wild, thundering waves of the Atlantic and the steep mountains of Slangkop and Red Hill. Gale force north-westers, icy rain and flooded dirt roads are a feature of…