Dream Trips: Adventurous Journeys From Across the Parts of the Globe I Know and Love for the Telegraph
Hiking across the causeway to Lindisfarne in Northumberland on the St Cuthbert’s Way can seem, from certain angles when the […]
Latest Books Out
2019 is nearly out and as the year speeds towards conclusion, I realise that several new titles I have contributed […]
Bothy Bagging – Feature for Walk Magazine
Autumn’s properly upon us, along with the icier weather, so how to explore the Great Outdoors when the temperatures up […]
Uttermost Ends of the Earth? My Work for Hiking/Trail Running Site GetSweatGo on Some of My All-time Favourite Treks
The classic Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru. Hiking Eastern Europe’s most mountainous terrain, the High Tatras in Slovakia. […]
Coracle Catch – Feature for Morning Calm Magazine
All this month, as you may have seen if you have been flying with Korean Air recently (!) my feature […]
Trail of the Unexpected – Feature for Adventure Travel
Liechtenstein is, nearly always, unexpected whenever it crops up in conversation. The minuscule size of this nation – just 24km […]
Holidays Fuelled By Nostalgia
When, once we get a little older, we travel, do we do so to seek out the new or to […]
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 […]
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 […]
On Welsh Craft Brews…
Scotland has its whisky and Ireland has Poitín. But on some beery research for the Welsh food and drink quarterly […]
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 […]
