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...
"Mr Safi Ullah was a tall thin man in white beard and white punjabi. He gave me tea and a copy of the headmaster’s report from 1948. As I left I pressed him to accept a 1000 taka note – a little less than £9. “For books,” I insisted. He took it under protest. “For books,” he agreed. I reflected afterwards that I had given him enough to keep a 10-year-old in school for a year."
