Wish you were here?

Despite travelling the world for 12 months himself, Niall Doherty feels like a novice compared to two hardy, intrepid Irishmen

I’M a 30-year-old man from Slieverue, County Kilkenny, writing to you from a cottage in Kathmandu, the latest stop on a four-year trip around the world without flying. In the past 12 months, I’ve stepped in 15 countries, three times the number I’d visited in my previous years.

My life isn’t sunshine and rainbows, but I’m rarely short on adventure. I could tell you stories of flirting in Amsterdam, presenting a workshop in Zurich, getting trapped in Romania, running out of cash in Iran, learning to dance on the Indian Ocean, making love in Delhi.