SPECIALITIES
WRITINGS
PICTURES
AWARDS
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Bitten
by the travelling bug in my early teens, I had travelled extensively
before turning from academic writing to travel-writing. I have been a
full-time travel writer now for 25 years and I am still excited by trips
on trains, ‘planes and bikes. I regularly contribute to UK and overseas
newspapers and magazines and I spend two months of the year in my
favourite country, Thailand. Over the years I have made a study of Thai
culture and history and I can be considered an expert on the country.
Destination pieces, anecdotal travel, humour, and food and drink, have
all been covered in my writing, as well as articles about wood-carving
and interviews with wood sculptors world wide.
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I
write for two websites. For
www.suite101.com
I am contracted to write a weekly feature on an East Asian
destination. I also write for other sections of this website, European
destinations, food and drink and luxury hotels. I currently have over
340 articles on the site.
I recently started writing for
www.theTravelEditor.com and hopefully
will get a good body of work up before the end of the year. If other
commitments allow I plan to put up at least two articles per week.
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Exotic
travels have taken me to Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga, but nowadays I am
happiest touring S.E. Asia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Taiwan and Malaysia, from
my base in Bangkok and Hua Hin, Thailand. While in Thailand I get around
the islands by boat and tour up-country by bus, car and elephant.
My other interests have taken me Jazzin’ in New Orleans and Chicago and
looking for (and finding) hidden parts of Spain. I was Spa correspondent
for TRIP magazine before that fine magazine closed and I still retain my
interest, and contacts, in the spa world.
I direct travel writing courses for Malaga Workshops both in Spain and
in the UK. For details,
email me.
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SPECIALIST TOPICS
- S.E. Asia (especially Thailand)
- Italy (especially Sicily, Verona, Florence, Lucca, Rome)
- Spain (especially Andalucia, Galicia, Navarra, Madrid, Toledo,
Barcelona, Cordoba, Malaga, and Granada)
- N. Ireland (especially Belfast, the Mourne Mountain area, Newryl, Armagh,
and Antrim)
- S.E. England (especially Isle of Wight, Brighton, Portsmouth,
Southampton, Guildford and Chichester)
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WRITINGS
I have published
articles in most of the national dailies, including the Scottish
ones, as well as magazines like BBC History, Wanderlust, Christian
Herald, Living Abroad, and Wood-Carving. I write frequently for
the inflight magazines of the major airlines like Peak
(Singapore), Morning Calm (Korea), Oryx (Qatar) and Open Skies
(Emirates), and have contributed articles for coffee table books
like 1,001 Escapes to Make Before you Die (Quintessence), Where to
Go When (Dorling Kindersley) and Guide to the Best Holistic Spas
(Footprint).
EXAMPLES OF PUBLISHED WORK
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PICTURES
Most of my work is
illustrated with my own photographs and I have a good library
images. I can provide pictures on CD, DVD or email as low-res or
high-res images.
PHOTOGRAPHY SELECTION
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AWARDS
Travelex Award - runner-up for a feature on the Isle of
Wight.
Lady Violet Astor Award for best published journalism
- for an article on cricket in Samoa.
Wight Writers Award - won three years running for best feature
article.
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BY MARI
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EXAMPLES OF PUBLISHED WORK
Jazzin’ in The Big
Easy
The
piercingly sweet trumpet is soloing on Oh Didn’t he Ramble
and I’m ‘second lining’ up North Rampart Street in New Orleans on
a Sunday afternoon behind the best jazz bands in town. Crowds pour
out of Armstrong Park where they’ve been waiting in the sweltering
heat since early morning for the parade to begin, and I’m lifted
bodily off the ground as we move off.
“Hey babe, you ain’t got no beads” and a big Mama drapes a dozen strings
of green, gold and purple necklaces around me. I am
underdressed. Electric blue suits, scarlet jackets, and leopard skin hats mark the sharpest dressers in the parade. That’s just
the men.
Read full article
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(first published: Trip Magazine)
The Kuomintang in
Thailand
Towering mountains and craggy limestone peaks loom out of the
early morning mist, elephants haul teak on river banks, and
families drift up and down the rivers on their bamboo rafts. The
essence of Northern Thailand is its breathtaking scenery - and its
mountain people.
The area between Chiang Rai and Mae Hong Son is hill tribe country, a
long chain of semi-connected Akha, Lahu, Hmong and Yeo villages
that exist with one foot in the iron age and the other in the
world of satellite TV. Politically, their existence is fraught
with tension.
Read full article
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(first published: The Peak)
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