My final major publication for the year, exploring the role of Leipzig in the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago this month. Clicking on the image will take you to the City AM website, where you can read the entire piece. Continue reading
My piece in this Monday’s City AM newspaper about the fun that can be had in the national parks of Croatia: Continue reading
For anyone outside of London who missed by latest major published piece in City AM, you can read it by clicking the picture below. I head to Jura in the Inner Hebrides to explore author George Orwell’s connection to the island: Continue reading
Today I’m launching a crowdfunding campaign for my new book Into adventure and sunshine. Based on my behind the lines adventure, it is a travelogue with a difference. More than 70 years in the making, it’s the story of my attempts to retrace my great uncle’s footsteps across 1,000 miles… Continue reading
I’m one of the last few passengers still aboard the ageing local stopping service as it trundles slowly north along the historic rail line, connecting otherwise isolated communities perched halfway between the valley floor and forested foothills. Check out the website of the excellent Let’s Explore Magazine, from where you… Continue reading
4 minute read This taxidermy class is the most fun you can have with a dead mouse for The Londonist Continue reading
10 minute read Sierra Leone’s Turtle Islands: the ultimate digital detox, on the Africa Geographic magazine blog (click to keep reading). Continue reading
When I began my Behind the Lines adventure (see the various previous posts for more) I realised to make sense of the journey I was to embark on, I was first going to have to do a hell of a lot of digging into the how my great uncle ended… Continue reading
