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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
South America: Interlude
I don’t expect anyone who drops in occasionally to this site to make sense of the daily plans and monthly […]
A Homage to Scotland’s NW Highlands
In early 2016, for a few very random months, I was lucky enough to live on an estate in Scotland’s […]
Peru for Foodies: Travels Through Peru’s Distinctive Culinary Regions – Article for Lonely Planet
I suppose it is not for nothing that I have the protagonist of Roebuck, 16th century South American gentleman adventurer […]
Around the Ecuadorian Andes in Seven Action-Packed Days – Article for KimKim
Whilst the Ecuadorian Highlands cannot quite compete with Peru for length, breadth and variety, it can offer some insights to […]
Obsessing Over Peruvian Rivers – Article for KimKim
Ah, boat trips. They fill me with an excitement no other means of transport can – particularly river trips, because […]
In Pursuit of Extremes: Life at Eighty Degrees North – Feature for Rough Guides
“…I must commence a destructive and almost endless journey across the mountainous ices of the ocean, amidst cold that few […]
Interlude: Ice
The one word I can safely say applies to all of my odysseys around the world is “rugged.” But after […]
The Amazandes: Making In-Roads Into Peru’s Wildernesses
There are a fair few nations that lend themselves to being termed ‘World’s Most Addictive Wilderness”. I have not (yet) […]
