Scotland and its Whisky: A First Taste
I love a theme that eases you in, ever so gently, to in-depth, off-the-beaten-track exploration of a country, and for […]
Hiking Coast-to-Coast Across Scotland: With No Trail – Feature for Adventure.com
With all the long-distance walking routes there are now, it’s hard to conceive of why, in winsome walker-friendly Europe, one […]
Travel Guides for National Geographic and the Sunday Times…
It’s been a manically busy summer after the lockdown lull. Succinct guides to various travel hotspots have become very much […]
Of Wine, Good Pubs, Ultimate Travel and Wales
What a strange and stop-start year it has been. With the nosedive in the popularity (and possibility) of travelling overseas […]
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 […]
The Northern Saints Project: Writing into Being the Christian Crossroads of the British Isles
It’s been a quiet three months on this site, but no chance of that being reflected in reality! Requests from […]
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 […]
Bothy Bagging – Feature for Walk Magazine
Autumn’s properly upon us, along with the icier weather, so how to explore the Great Outdoors when the temperatures up […]
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. […]
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 […]
Inverclyde’s Radical Rejuvenation: Can this Scottish Port Become the UK’s Top Cruise Hub? – Article for the Telegraph
The River Clyde. Long synonymous with either the boom of industry – or the death of it, and the deprivation […]
On Welsh Craft Brews…
Scotland has its whisky and Ireland has Poitín. But on some beery research for the Welsh food and drink quarterly […]
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 […]
Luke and his Words... 