I am a full-time travel writer, contributing to newspapers, magazines and websites in the UK and worldwide.
In addition I've written over 30 guidebooks, one podcast, three radio plays and one novel. My awards include a Travelex Award, a BGTW Award, two Awards for Excellence from the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, a Benjamin Franklin Award in the USA for a guidebook to Paris, and being chosen by the Press Gazette as one of the 50 Most Influential Travel Journalists in the UK. I publish three travel content websites, and divide my time between the UK and Arizona.
I write about food and drink for the travel pages, covering vineyards in Greece and New Zealand, breweries in Belgium and Britain, restaurants in Paris, a chocolate shop in Lyon, the biggest wine cellar in the world (in Florida), interviewing an English sommelier in Paris, and sipping my way through the Champagne region of France and the sherry bodegas of Jerez (no spitting). I invented the Time for Food series for Thomas Cook (purely so that I could go to places like Paris, Venice and Amsterdam and get paid for eating and drinking there).
Combining music and travel is another love: I have written pieces about Bob Marley, the Beatles, Elvis Presley and Hank Williams.
More exotic travels have taken me camel-trekking in the Sinai Desert (right), walking in the Great Rift Valley, learning to jive in Barcelona, looking for orang-utans in Sumatra, staying with a farming family in China and sampling a naturist holiday on Crete (photos available at a price).
I have also written or contributed to over 30 guidebooks, especially on Greece, Paris and Amsterdam, for publishers including National Geographic, Fodor's, AA, AAA, Thomas Cook, Dorling Kindersley, Michelin, New Holland. Insight, Moon Handbooks and many more.
A selection of my travel writing, Snakes Alive and Other Travel Writing, was published by Blue Sky Books in 2010. You can read an interview I did about it on the Travel Writing 2.0 website. The book's available on Kindle in the UK, Kindle in the USA, and in paperback on Amazon.com, as well as on various other websites and smartphone devices, including at the Apple Store.
In addition, I've written three radio plays for the BBC (one for the World Service, one for Radio 3 and one for Radio 4, the last being voted 'Radio Play of the Year' by the Mail on Sunday), presented a half-hour radio travel programme about Egypt, written fiction and humour for men's magazines and even written an erotic novel. I may be the only writer to have contributed both to the men's magazine Mayfair (I was in the same issue as Bill Bryson) and to The Baptist Times. Not to mention writing a few minutes of the UK's favourite TV soap, Coronation Street, when my father was a scriptwriter on the programme. My first crime novel, Strip till Dead, was published in 2011 by Knife Edge Crime.
I also write regularly now for the internet, providing online city and regional guides for Weissmann, who publish travel guides for the travel trade in the USA. I'm the Feature Writer on the UK and Ireland at Suite101, providing one article every week. My wife Donna Dailey and I now also publish and write our own travel content websites about America's Pacific Coast Highway, about Greece, and the latest one, Beyond London Travel.
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I am a full-time travel writer, contributing to newspapers, magazines and websites in the UK and worldwide. 
More exotic travels have taken me camel-trekking in the Sinai Desert (right), walking in the Great Rift Valley, learning to jive in Barcelona, looking for orang-utans in Sumatra, staying with a farming family in China and sampling a naturist holiday on Crete (photos available at a price).