bicycling

Farook Taylor, cyclist: "I pray everywhere. When I'm out riding my bike and it's time to pray, I go find a bathroom to wash up first. When you pray, you pray to Allah, and that's it. You block everything else out. Afterwards, you feel a whole lot better." Read the rest of his quote.

South Africa is a multitude of magnificent experiences, from the colonial towns of the Garden Route to the vast plain of the Karoo. Then there's the glamour and the glitz of Cape Town and its coastline as photographed by Franz Marc Frei.

"Travel" sounds expensive, but it need not involve going to strange places or spending a lot of money. And that's why we're ending our travel year with Danny MacAskill cycling around Edinburgh to the soundtrack of a group called Band of Horses.

It's late on a December evening. The dark clouds are full of rain. Suddenly, the sun appears in the west. An unusual pink light appears over Ballyhoura Country, and the landscape is covered in shades of green one cannot find anywhere else in the world. That's Ireland.