A Little Post-Lockdown Update
Lockdown was never going to be any travel writer’s finest hour. Writing about travelling… within five miles of your front […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On Welsh Craft Brews…
Scotland has its whisky and Ireland has Poitín. But on some beery research for the Welsh food and drink quarterly […]
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 World: in Beer – Global Beer Tour Published
The other day, on the final stretch of a 2-day walk through Mid-Wales, I realised that, footsore after a 50-mile […]
Healthy Eating (Combined with a Hearty Dose of Adventure) – Lonely Planet’s World’s Best Superfoods Published
Diets. (Sigh, roll of the eyes). Everyone seems to be on them right now. My parents. My girlfriend (and thus […]
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 […]
Head in the Cloudberries – Feature for Morning Calm Magazine
Autumn comes round quickly. This tends to get drummed home to all of us once we start having to write […]
Peru and the Potato – Feature for Morning Calm, Korean Air’s In-Flight Magazine
Out today – and no April fool: my first published work in Korean. The reason? I have a six-page feature […]
Exploring Cuba Through the Mojito – Feature for Destinations of the World News
Cuba is one of my very favourite countries in the world. And when I’m asked why, I invariably have to […]
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 […]
