Biography

Widely-travelled but ageing award-winning hack with more than 40 years experience as a staff journalist (news reporter/feature writer/leader writer/sub-editor and night editor) on national, regional and local newspapers. Life member of NUJ. Now freelancing for various newspapers, magazines and internet sites in Britain and Ireland.

Won Czech Tourism's 2019 Press Award for Sun feature about the delights of drinking and bathing in beer in Bohemia and shortlisted for ATTA travel writing award over Sun article about Swaziland (or Eswatini, as it is now known).

Have also taught English in Istanbul, worked on a kibbutz and down a copper mine in Israel, laboured on a building site in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and once as a young journalist following a military coup in the African country of Niger had the "misfortune” to be kept under house arrest for several days in a hotel which also functioned as the local bordello.

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Couples Travel, Culture & History, Ethical or Responsible Travel, Flight-free Travel, Hotel Reviews, Hiking, Luxury Travel, Rail Travel, Safaris, Slow Travel, Sustainable Travel

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