You've found the right place - welcome to my peripatetic world.

For over 20 years I’ve been lucky enough to circle the globe, writing and snapping (pictures that is) between encounters with monks, maharajas and mountain shepherds. All in the name of making a living.

Travel-lust is in my blood, inherited from a globe-trotting family and early childhood experiences. This was compounded by writing a string of guide-books which took me deep beneath the surface of several major cultures. Time has brought huge development to some of them like Mexico, India and Vietnam, for better or for worse, and I have soft spots for places I’ve actually lived in - London, Paris, central Italy and Australia. You can add to those Andalucia, a region I have been faithful to for 30 years and where I now have a retreat in the olive groves. Its magic never fails.

My parallel passion is food and what I call gastro-communication - what better way to communicate? Sometimes I feel I should put a stop to my carbon bootprint and just travel near my north London home to the dozens of ethnic restaurants serving delectable stuff. But it’s hard to lose out on the sights, sounds and salivating aromas of markets in Fez, Oaxaca or Pondichery, the street-food of Burma or Vietnam or, like a stuffed goose, indulging in pintxo after pintxo in San Sebastian. As yet, I’m not ready to stop - apologies to the planet meanwhile.

So hit the trail with me! Click and comment on my (irregular) blog, on pictures of my travels or my travel stories. Enjoy the journey – there and here – and come back soon. Thanks for visiting.
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