Stuart ForsterStuart Forster - freelance travel photographer and features writer.
A keen independent traveller, Stuart has experience of writing for guidebooks, magazines, newspapers and the internet, and is available for new commissions.
Stuart is passionate about history, contemporary culture and sports, plus food and drink. He enjoys trekking, slow travel and city breaks.
Until mid-2008 Stuart was based in Bangalore, India, where he contributed to the in-depth glossy guide, Bengaluru... Read more...
"My Dead Sea stroll to the spa began unpromisingly. An old Jordan hand chided me for breaking every social taboo in the land: wet hair (suggestive of steamy sex, not a good look in Ramadan, when romps are banned till sunset); exposed nape of the neck (erotic provocation); bare knees (erogenous zone and poor sartorial sense); looking men in the eye (looser morals than Salome, that local minx). But the irrepressible staff smiled serenely at my crimes, while possibly consigning me to Sodom, just down the track in Biblical terms."
