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MAGAN'S WORLD:AS A RECOVERING travel addict, taking on a fortnightly column in Go may not be the wisest move, but I've been clean now for five years. Of course I still occasionally wander (if I had an addiction counsellor I would be hiding my most recent frequent flyers statement from her), but I'm over the mindset that had me perpetually roaming the furthest reaches of the planet. I have a home now. I'm a settled nomad.

For me, it started innocently enough with an interest in St Brendan the Navigator during childhood, followed by a bit of harmless roaming around Europe in my teens. Soon that just wasn't enough and I started down the road towards obsessively reading maps and travel books.