The Viennese Cafes That Force You to Talk to Strangers – Article for Adventure.com
As a coffee addict, I adore Vienna’s coffeehouses. Not because of the coffee necessarily. But because of the environment. They […]
Small Country, Big Hike – Feature on Liechtenstein for N by Norwegian’s Adventure Issue!
A lot of you might have already seen this feature, given Norwegian’s increasingly vast network these days. June is their […]
Inverclyde’s Radical Rejuvenation: Can this Scottish Port Become the UK’s Top Cruise Hub? – Article for the Telegraph
The River Clyde. Long synonymous with either the boom of industry – or the death of it, and the deprivation […]
On Welsh Craft Brews…
Scotland has its whisky and Ireland has Poitín. But on some beery research for the Welsh food and drink quarterly […]
LATA Latin American Travel Writer of the Year Winner!
Was a huge, huge honour on Tuesday night to pick up the LATA Latin American Travel Writer of the Year […]
The Best Hikes in Wales (That Aren’t Snowdon) – Article for Rough Guides
I realise I never posted this piece on Wales’ best non-Snowdon hikes, but as it was originally published for the […]
Booming Blaenau: The Welsh Mining Town Transforming Itself into an Adventure Hotspot – Article for Adventure.com
The other week, whilst elsewhere in the country people were enjoying a spot of sunshine, I spent some time […]
Out on a High: Exploring Slovakia’s High Tatras – Article for Lonely Planet
Mountains. I get a nostalgic dewy-eyed gleam to my eyes just thinking about them: those I have visited and those […]
Journeys – Talk at the Professional Women’s Business Association, Cardiff, February 28
A rearrangement! I was due to give this talk in January 2018 but for a couple of reasons it has […]
Latin America in the Extreme: My Top Adventure Travel Articles for Kimkim
Over the last year or so I’ve been doing a lot of work with leading adventure travel operators Kimkim to […]
Castle Combe & the Cotswolds – Feature for Which?
Oh, the Cotswolds, that Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, where the honey-coloured sandstone houses line quaint village streets that could […]
Is This Peru’s Next Inca Trail? – Article for Adventure.com
Happy 2019. When people ask me what my 2018 highlight was travel-wise, the hike to Choquequirao, billed as Peru’s Next […]
Cruise control – my Latest Articles for the Telegraph
No one ever really thought cruises would become as big a thing as they have in Britain of all places, […]
2018 (Through My Latest Reference Books, from Puerto Rican beaches to Peruvian train rides to the Welsh coffee scene!)
And there it was, 2018, passed by in a flash! Passed by so speedily, in fact, that I haven’t even […]
How Tough Can Britain’s Toughest Trail Be? – Article for Adventure.com
There were a spate of late Victorian adventurers, Henry Savage Landor springing to mind, who were not content with seeking […]
On Brutality and Bardism – Talk at the PENfro Book Festival, Rhosygilwen, Pembrokeshire
PENfro has been one of those literary festivals I’ve idolised for a while: what after all could constitute a more […]
