Travel Writing

On this page is a selection of articles, blog posts and essays. Some are from Many Africas (manyafricas.com), others from trips elsewhere over the years.

Travel Writing

If you have got this far, you are probably an editor or an agent reading a proposal. The articles below will give you a flavour of how I write.

Articles, essays, blog posts

The British and Mexico

Written as an introduction to a glossy travel book, A Very British Book on Contemporary Mexico

48 hours in South Luangwa

The first of two blog posts on a weekend trip from Malawi to the magical Luangwa Valley

Encounters with Elephants

A blog entry on elephants, what they are like, where best to see them. I love elephants...

Oryx and Cake

I wrote this 20 years ago. I have added a few updates but kept the title, possibly my best work (along with Figo: He Go while editor of realmadrid.com. I am an idiot, I know)

A week in Limpopo

I worked on a nature reserve in Limpopo, then Northern Transvaal, as a teenager, and returned in 2018 (and for a family holiday in 2019) to a province transformed.

Back to France

Returning to the country I grew up in with our daughter was such a delight. And Paris was entirely, warmly, welcoming, which I wasn't expecting at all.

Other writing

I regularly write lectures and give talks in my work as a French and Spanish teacher, mostly on Spain, Latin America and France, and presented papers on the Buenos Aires frontier during a brief academic not-exactly-career in 2009-11. I was the founding editor of realmadrid.com and wrote lots of TV pitches in the late 90s. More recently, I have written articles for Travel Africa Magazine