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Where to Stay in South America’s Traveller Hotspots – Articles for Culture Trip
January 16, 2021 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Where to Stay in South America’s Traveller Hotspots – Articles for Culture Trip

My latest series of articles for Culture Trip, just out, focuses on legendary South American traveller hangouts from Cartagena, Colombia […]

Dream Trips: Adventurous Journeys From Across the Parts of the Globe I Know and Love for the Telegraph
December 3, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

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
December 2, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

Latest Books Out

2019 is nearly out and as the year speeds towards conclusion, I realise that several new titles I  have contributed […]

Latin America in the Extreme: My Top Adventure Travel Articles for Kimkim
January 30, 2019 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

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
August 20, 2018 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

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
March 3, 2018 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

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
June 16, 2017 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

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
February 10, 2017 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

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!
October 7, 2016 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

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
August 17, 2016 1 Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

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
June 2, 2016 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

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
May 18, 2016 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Amazon Travel

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
May 4, 2016 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Adventure Travel

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
March 26, 2016 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Amazon Travel

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
November 19, 2015 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Amazon Travel

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
October 26, 2015 Leave a Comment by lwaterson Amazon Travel

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 […]

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