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"Tell me something interesting about your country. Something that people on the other side of the world who've maybe never heard of it would relate to."

I'm walking with gods. I took my first steps beside them 40-some years ago. Not steps; I was in bed. Mum and Dad had come in to tell me and my brother it was lights out.

An unexpected visitor sends Ewan McDonald scurrying for his life.

Ewan McDonald writes a letter from the Corinthians' canal, an emperor's project two millennia in the making.

He lived, he loved, he sang, he ate. Ewan McDonald hangs out in Luciano Pavarotti's modest retreat in northern Italy.

Ewan McDonald sails (not cruises) on a yacht (not a ship) across the Mediterranean from Rome to points east and south.

On a freezing evening in Berlin, Ewan McDonald walks among the ghosts of those who paid the ultimate price for a new life.

Ahead of Air New Zealand beginning its direct flights to Houston in December, Ewan McDonald visits the space base.

Ewan McDonald sips the flavours of the Old South in Texas and New Orleans.

Ewan McDonald digs into cardiac-convulsing concoctions in Prague.