Martin Hemming

When he was 19, our writer loved the country of squat loos, rip-off taxis and seedy auberges. Would a return visit give his children playground bragging rights?

Why?Puffins! The cliff-edged island of Skomer, off the Marloes Peninsula, Pembrokeshire, was a farm until the Second World War. It’s now a Welsh Wildlife Trust reserve that’s the sometime home of 25,000 of everyone’s favourite auk — even the RSPB describes puffins as “comical”. They’re due in any

India is difficult to explain to someone who hasn’t been there. It’s so many kinds of opposites. Everywhere you travel in India, you find completely different

My father is a pilot and my grandad was a fighter pilot during the war, so I grew up with flying. I learnt to fly aeroplanes in 2003, then helicopters in 2012.