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 […]
South America: Interlude
I don’t expect anyone who drops in occasionally to this site to make sense of the daily plans and monthly […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
New Travel Books Out!
A round-up of books published of late that I’ve co-authored or contributed to is, I fear, a little overdue… Already […]
Travelling Across Europe by Rail: Some Thoughts on Why You Should
I put the following piece up on the site I keep on Slovak travel, the Englishman in Slovakia, recently. But […]
Guest Speaker at the Ilminster Literary Festival, June 2nd
Everyone: it’s not too late! There is still time to grab your thinking cap and head on down to Ilminster […]
Interview for Go Eat Do – on Roebuck, the Amazon and my Latest Novel
It’s always an honour and a privilege when journalists want to interview me about my writing – particularly my fiction […]
Skip the Crowds: My Tips on Tour Group Dodging in the Andes and Amazon for Wanderlust
It’s not all of us (let’s face it, it’s not that many of us) that really want to be inundated […]
Interview with A Lover of Books: on Roebuck, Writing Techniques and Inspirations
It was my pleasure to be interviewed recently by the lovely creator of the A Lover of Books blog on […]
Spilling the Beans: Exploring Ecuador’s Chocolate Industry – Article for Lonely Planet
I have always been a chocoholic and once I sampled my first square of dark arriba Ecuadorian chocolate there […]
The Amazon in Fact and in Fiction – Article for British Guild of Travel Writers
The Amazon Basin is a fickle and defiant thing – even its facts are hard to grasp, and its fictions […]
