Freelance travel writer, photographer, sub-editor and copyeditor
Even though I didn't leave the UK until I was 18 I've always been a bit of an adventuress and enjoyed visiting new places and meeting new people. Travelling around the UK's great, particularly the Scottish Highlands, Cornwall, Wales and Berkshire (where I currently live), but I am always fascinated to venture overseas and feel very fortunate that I'm able to combine my passions for travel, writing and photography and to... Read more...
"Apparently Ranger was a bit of a ladies dog - the Steve Owen of Alaskan Huskies – intent on making sudden amorous advances towards anything with four legs and a fur coat. This was fine in his own time but not when pulling a slightly overweight journalist over the icy terrain of Swedish Lapland. The last thing this slightly overweight journalist needed was to be tipped from his sled into a frozen lake, even in the name of canine romance."
Joe Cawley, Adrenaline-lovers of the Arctic Circle, The Guardian, Sept 11, 2003