"If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel."

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Helen Ochyra

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I am a London-based freelance journalist, writer and editor, specialising in travel. I am particularly knowledgeable about UK destinations and spend a lot of time travelling in this country. Having also lived in both the USA (San Diego, California) and Australia (Brisbane, Queensland) I also specialise in these areas.

I am also writing a book about the exodus of Poles from Poland during and after the second world war.

I speak Spanish fluently and take all my own...
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 "“You can swim here if you like,” said Yaró.
Deep within my memory, bells were ringing about tiny jungle parasites that find no greater pleasure than swimming straight up your plumbing and co-habiting your vital organs. Plus, there was of course the crocodile infestation and the world’s only freshwater sharks that lurked never far away.
“No thanks, I’ll just watch.” Besides, it was raining. A lot. But then this was the rainy season in Nicaragua."

Joe Cawley, River of Dreams, The Guardian, Sept 17, 2005

 

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