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, […]
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. […]
LATA Latin American Travel Writer of the Year Winner!
Was a huge, huge honour on Tuesday night to pick up the LATA Latin American Travel Writer of the Year […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
A round-up of books published of late that I’ve co-authored or contributed to is, I fear, a little overdue… Already […]
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 […]
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 […]
Luke and his Words... 