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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Journeys – Talk at the Professional Women’s Business Association, Cardiff, February 28
A rearrangement! I was due to give this talk in January 2018 but for a couple of reasons it has […]
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 […]
On Brutality and Bardism – Talk at the PENfro Book Festival, Rhosygilwen, Pembrokeshire
PENfro has been one of those literary festivals I’ve idolised for a while: what after all could constitute a more […]
Eisteddfod!!
The premier event in the Welsh cultural calendar starts today, and I have a fair few reasons for being excited […]
Song Castle Launched at Octavo’s in Cardiff
Song Castle was officially launched to the Welsh literary world on Thursday, April 12th at the bookshop/cafe-bar Octavo’s in Cardiff […]
On the Role of St Davids and Western Wales in Medieval Culture – Talk at the Oriel Y Parc Visitor Centre in St Davids, July 4th
For those of you who have never heard of or paid a visit to St Davids, sequestered way out on […]
Reading at Llandeilo Lit Fest This April!
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be talking all things medieval and Welsh with fellow writer Jean Gill at this […]
Luke and his Words... 