2374“I heard this while on a train from New Delhi to Ajmer in India,” says Alex in his audio clip.

”I was sleeping, I woke up with a man kind of yelling in my face with a big cobra. And then another man looked at me, smiled and told me that quote.

”It stuck with me because it’s an accurate representation of my experiences in India, where you’re not exactly sure why something’s happening, and it’s really weird, and it couldn’t happen anywhere else.

”But you just have to take it for what it is and just laugh about it, because otherwise you’re going to be stressed and actually that’s a good philosophy for travelling as a whole.”

Taken in Chiang Mai, Thailand during the SOTM World Tour by Isaac Brightmore.