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My latest guidebook
DK Eyewitness
Top 10 Paris
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I
am a full-time travel writer, contributing to newspapers,
magazines and websites in the UK and worldwide. In addition I've written
many guidebooks, one podcast, three radio plays and a novel.
I publish three travel content websites, and divide my time between the
UK and Arizona.
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My
awards include the AITO Online Travel Writer of the Year (2011), 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 have
written, updated or contributed to over 40 guidebooks, especially
on Greece, France, the USA and Amsterdam, for publishers including
National Geographic, Fodor's, AA, AAA, Thomas Cook, Dorling Kindersley,
Michelin, New Holland, Insight, Moon Handbooks and many more.
I also write regularly for the internet. 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 newest one,
Beyond London Travel.
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ARTICLES
I have contributed to
magazines worldwide, and to most
of the national newspapers in Britain, as well as to The
Washington Post and to newspapers in Australia.
EXAMPLES OF PUBLISHED WORK
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PICTURES
I take photos for many of
my own guidebooks and travel pieces. My work has appeared in The
Times, The Express, Wanderlust, CNN Traveller, Time Out and many
other publications. As well as illustrating my own guidebooks, my
pictures have been used in other guides, for example the front
cover of the Bradt Guide to Lithuania.
PHOTOGRAPHY SELECTION
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BOOKS
My guidebooks have been published by
National Geographic, Fodor's, AA, AAA, Thomas Cook, Dorling Kindersley,
Michelin, New Holland, Insight, Moon Handbooks and many more. Several
new titles
and new editions have been published this year.
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AWARDS
I have won
several awards for writing and photography:
A Travelex Award for a feature on Yangshuo in China, published in
Time Out;
An award from the British Guild of Travel Writers for a feature
about a taxi tour of Belfast, published in The Independent on
Sunday;
Two Awards for Excellence from the Outdoor Writers' Guild, one for
a feature on Madeira in The Independent on Sunday, the other for
photojournalism for an illustrated feature about self-sufficiency
in Ireland published in The European;
A Benjamin Franklin Award from the Publishers Association in the
USA, for a guide to Paris.
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SPECIALITIES
Greece; Paris and the South of France; Amsterdam; the USA
(especially the west coast and southwest USA); food and drink; the
UK and Ireland; guidebooks; writing for the internet.
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TO CONTACT ME
In summer I'm based in Cambridgeshire in the UK, and then in the
winter migrate to Arizona in the USA, where I have a Green Card
and a home near Tucson. I can always be contacted by
email.
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EXAMPLES OF PUBLISHED WORK
Seeing stars in Mississippi
A friend of mine was driving on the back roads of Mississippi
recently, heading for Elvis’s birthplace at Tupelo. She got lost
and stopped to ask directions at a gas station. The owner was
having trouble with her English accent, so he went inside to get
his buddy. The buddy came out. It was Clint Eastwood. ...
Read full article
On the Watercress Trail
"'Ere's yer salory and watercreases!"
That, according to Peter Ackroyd's London, is what the street
sellers of the capital used to cry when watercress was the
medieval version of fast food, sold in bunches for people to
nibble as they walked along. What spinach was to Popeye,
watercress was to soldiers in ancient Greece where the general
Xenophon used to feed it to his soldiers as a tonic. The herbalist
Culpepper reckoned it was good for cleansing the blood, and Liz
Hurley says she has six bowls of watercress soup a day to help
keep her looks. ...
Read full article
A Passion for
Pétanque
To most people
pétanque is just a load of boules, a game you see Frenchmen play
on bumpy bone-dry pitches, usually with a glass of pastis not far
away. In fact some 17 million French people (men and women) play
pétanque, particularly in Provence where it was invented 100 years
ago this year, in a village called La Ciotat near Marseille. ...
Read full article
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Mike Gerrard
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Some earlier titles
Mike Gerrard receives his Travelex Award
from the BBC's Martyn Lewis (left) and Travelex Chief Executive Lloyd
Dorfman
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