Travel writing portfolio
Books
Northern and Southern Luzon chapters, Rough Guide to the Philippines (Rough Guides, due Nov 2011)Riga vs Prague, The Road Less Travelled (Dorling Kindersley, Sep 2009)
Latvia and cross-Baltic material, Eyewitness Guide to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (Dorling Kindersley, Feb 2009)
Riga and Bratislava, European City Breaks, 2nd edition (Footprint, Sep 2007)
Riga, European City Breaks, 1st edition (Footprint, Jan 2006)
Online/mobile guides
Manila luxury mobile guide (Vertu, Jan 2011)Manila mobile guide (Ten, Jan 2011)
Manila mini-guide (Frommer’s, Sep 2010)
Short guides to various Asian cities (Etihad, late 2009)
Selected articles
Note that reprint and foreign rights are available for many of these pieces. Contact me for details.Make yourself at home in India – homestays in Kerala (Sublime, Nov/Dec 2010)
No barriers on the high seas – tall ship voyage for disabled and able-bodied participants (Real Travel, Jul 2010)
Jewels of the sea – diving and conservation around the Medes islands (Sublime, Jul/Aug 2010)
Rice dreams – Southeast Asia’s stunning terraces (southeastasia.org, Feb 2010)
Chinatown (southeastasia.org, Feb 2010)
Philippines guide (ABTA Southeast Asia supplement, Feb 2010)
Patron Santos – collector of Filipino santos (saint) figures (Islands, Jan/Feb 2010)
Solo in Java – motorcycle tour (Mabuhay, Nov 2009)
Cameron’s lure – Cameron Highlands, Malaysia (Mabuhay, Nov 2009)
One step at a time – a walking tour of Manila (Mabuhay, Oct 2009)
In too deep? – caving in Mulu, Malaysia (Mabuhay, Oct 2009)
Shark Life – snorkeling with whale sharks (Sublime, Sep/Oct 2009)
Sunrise on Mount Kinabalu (Mabuhay, Jul 2009)
Articles on Manila, adventure travel and island hopping for Philippines supplement (ABTA Magazine, May 2009)
Elephants you’ll never forget – Kinabatangan river tours, Malaysia (Mabuhay, May 2009)
Gentle giants – snorkeling with whale sharks (Mabuhay, Apr 2009)
Get away in 2009 (Disability Product News, Feb 2009)
Diving into new depths – Scuba diving in the Philippines for disabled people (Mabuhay, Nov 2008)
Bratislava city guide (Sky Europe, Oct & Nov 2008)
Take a gamble – Macau (Disability Product News, Jun/Jul 2008)
Sea change – Cruise holidays (Disability Product News, May 2008)
On the up in Hong Kong – The Central-Mid Levels Escalator (Metro, Jan 2008)
Beer and Bizet in the same Oslo pub (Wizzit, Dec 2007/Jan 2008)
How to work with disabled travellers (ABTA Magazine, Dec 2007)
Drift on Kerala’s waterways and drown in contentment (TheLondonPaper, 19 Dec 2006)
How do you like Iceland? (In London, October 2006)
It takes two to tandem – Tandem riding for visually impaired people, UK (Disability Product News, Apr/May 2006)
Vipassana Meditation in India (Transitions Abroad, Jan/Feb 2006)
Road to heaven – The Karakoram Highway (Global, Jul/Aug 2005)
Illegal Alien – Detained in Turkmenistan (Global, Nov/Dec 2004)
Back to basics – Dzukija National Park, Lithuania (Winner of Guardian Young Travel Writer of the Year, Aug 2002)