Song Castle: It’s Official – My Latest Novel is Out in April
It has been four months in the research, almost one year and 125,000 words in the writing, but I am […]
Journeys – Talk at the Professional Women’s Business Association, Cardiff, February 26, 2019
A rearrangement! I was due to give this talk this January but for a couple of reasons it has been […]
Where the Going Gets Green – Article for Travel Ideas Magazine
Travel Ideas produce beautiful glossy quarterly travel magazines aimed at savvy, adventurous travellers with the financial means to go that […]
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 […]
On Cutting and Growing
The morning mists linger long in the valley I live in and whilst we all roll our eyes at them […]
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 […]
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 […]
In Pursuit of Extremes: Life at Eighty Degrees North – Feature for Rough Guides
“…I must commence a destructive and almost endless journey across the mountainous ices of the ocean, amidst cold that few […]
Europe: A Retrospective – Thoughts On, and New Books Out About, the ‘Continent’ We are Bidding Farewell
Europe: A Retrospective. An exhibition coming to every resident of the UK in 2019. And coming for good. All liberal […]
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 […]
Brave New World – Cover Story for n by Norwegian
Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the New World: however radical the consequences, it is not necessarily an event which can be […]
Interlude: Ice
The one word I can safely say applies to all of my odysseys around the world is “rugged.” But after […]
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) […]
Quiet Start to 2017? Well…
Behind the moody, storm-tossed January skies, all has seemed quiet in my Welsh abode. But a lot of stuff has […]
Introducing Kuba: My Tips on Travelling Around Cuba – Article for Geosaison, Germany’s Leading Travel Magazine
GeoSaison, Germany’s leading quality travel magazine, featured Cuba as their January 2017 cover story. For those of you lucky enough […]
