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...
"In 1992 I was invited to join the inaugural flight of Richard Branson's Vintage Airways, an airline operating holiday flights from Orlando to Key West using two restored Douglas DC3 aircraft offering 1940's style service, livery, uniforms and experience—one of their signature moments was the excited announcement from the flight deck that they had just heard on the radio, news of the Japanese surrender in the Pacific. I remember the thing that surprised me most—besides Japan tenaciously holding on for another 50 years—was having to walk steeply uphill to my seat."
Alastair McKenzie, 'What's Changed In 60 years of Civil Aviation?', The Director, Oct 07
