Peru: to the Nazca Lines and Lake Titicaca for the Latest Lonely Planet Guidebook
Goodness knows how many miles, by shaky internal flight and bumpy road and sputtering boat trip and spectacular mountain hike, […]
The Course of True Love: 9 Best Budget Honeymoons for 2024 – Article for Lonely Planet
Who doesn’t need a little bit of extra love in their life at this cold, dark time of year?! Light […]
Pole Position: The Coldest Places on Earth – my Latest for Lonely Planet
Not everyone starts tingling with excitement at the idea of Arctic or Antarctic temperatures for their next trip away. I […]
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
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Top Wellness Spots in Latin America – Article for Lonely Planet
It should come as no surprise that Central and South America have woken up to the booming multi-billion dollar industry […]
Pablo Neruda’s Chile – Article for Lonely Planet
Land of poets – país de poetas. Having produced two Nobel Prize-winning poets has given Chile such a moniker, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Luke and his Words... 