Time for our weekly travel segment Heading Off.
Many of you will have been on holiday and been desperate to stay longer than planned - usually logistics and life get in the way.
But that wasn't the case for our next guest, Alex Bell has just returned home after 18 months of travelling, originally he planned to be gone for only three.
The 15th century Inca citadel Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains in Peru. Photo: 123RF
