Contributor to Wired.com, Forbes.com, Daily Mail Travel Online and The Guardian. Writer since 1989 when returned from two-year solo cycle tour around the Middle East. Founder of On Your Bike, sold to EMAP in 1999. Founder of BikeBiz, sold to Intent Media in 2005. Publisher in 1995 of a pioneering guidebook on Lebanon. Author of Berlitz Discover Guide to Israel. CAA A2 C of C drone pilot.