• Frantically trying to keep up with HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal on a desert bike ride while clutching our Dictaphone in a death grip.
• Saddling up and trying to keep our head (literally) in the midst of flying mallets and several tonnes of sweating horse meat at an Argentinean polo match.
• Lying in wait for a chance meeting with a tiger in the forests of India’s Madhya Pradesh and then finally remembering to breathe again once she was gone.
• Meeting Lionel Messi and being forced to concede that none of us were ever going to make it as professional footballers.
• Sampling Vertu’s Concierge service in Italy for a few days and secretly hoping for another volcanic ash disaster so as to extend it by a week.
• Scaring ourselves to death while driving the latest Bugatti Veyron (this year’s Ultimate Vehicle Winner) in Spain … we knew there was a reason for speed limits.
• Discovering the dark arts of pan-Arab advertising with the fascinating Ramsay Najjar and then wishing we hadn’t, sometimes ignorance is bliss.
• Living out any number of boyhood dreams when surrounded by models and Caterpillar bulldozers. It’s alright, we were there for the fashion shoot, darling.
• Forcing Dubai’s best Japanese restaurants, Okku and Zuma into a head-to-head cook off, needless to say, the editor-in-chief didn’t hit his target weight that week.
• Stripping down an AK-47 in the middle of Yemen while discussing the benefits of concussion grenades with female graduates from the Sana’a Police Academy.
