Regardless of how dear you respect your mortality, there are things you cannot easily hide from, something which managing an education project in India has hammered home for me...
Once feared as the worst place on Earth, the French Guiana prison colony made famous by Papillon has now thrown off the shackles of the past to welcome well-heeled tourists.
Sometimes it's not what you eat, but where you eat, when you eat or who you're with. Sometimes, of course, it's just that you're eating tender, slow-cooked, 72-hour marinated ribs...
Hippies didn't buy their weed from ferret-faced lads in souped-up Corsas around the back of a McDonalds Drive-Thru. Theirs was an altogether more civilised transaction.