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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 editor) on various national, regional and local newspapers. Life member of NUJ.  Now freelancing mostly for the nationals. Won Czech Tourism's 2019 Press Award for Sun article about the delights of beer drinking in Bohemia and shortlisted for ATTA travel writing award over Sun feature 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 had the "misfortune" of being kept under house arrest for several days in an African bordello following a military coup.

Retired staff journalist on The Sun, Daily Star, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, now an award-winning travel writer for various national newspapers, magazines and travel websites in Britain and Ireland.

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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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