Scotland and its Whisky: A First Taste – Article for Lonely Planet
I love a theme that eases you in, ever so gently, to in-depth, off-the-beaten-track exploration of a country, and for […]
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 […]
Latest Books Out
2019 is nearly out and as the year speeds towards conclusion, I realise that several new titles I have contributed […]
Out on a High: Exploring Slovakia’s High Tatras – Article for Lonely Planet
Mountains. I get a nostalgic dewy-eyed gleam to my eyes just thinking about them: those I have visited and those […]
2018 (Through My Latest Reference Books, from Puerto Rican beaches to Peruvian train rides to the Welsh coffee scene!)
And there it was, 2018, passed by in a flash! Passed by so speedily, in fact, that I haven’t even […]
South America: Interlude
I don’t expect anyone who drops in occasionally to this site to make sense of the daily plans and monthly […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yellowstone: Insider’s Guide – Feature for Lonely Planet
Coming up in 2016 is the centennial of the US National Parks – 100 years of truly wonderful wildernesses […]
Luke and his Words... 