Copywriting & Consultancy

• Cuba Travel Network
• Cuba Private Travel
• Esencia Experiences
• Thomson Holidays
• Consultant, meeting organiser, and tourism and economy report writer for NGO Fauna & Flora International
• Adviser and fixer to journalists and photographers

Guidebooks

• Lead author Lonely Planet Cuba 11 (Forthcoming 2023)
• Lead updater DK Eyewitness Cuba (2022)
• Updater, Insight Guides Cuba (2022)
• Author, Havana Pocket Precincts: A Pocket Guide to the City’s Best Cultural Hangouts, Shops, Bars and Eateries 2020
• Contributor, Lonely Planet Secret City (Old Havana) 2020
• Contributor, Lonely Planet Global Chocolate Tour (Baracoa, Cuba) 2020
• Contributor, Lonely Planet Guide to Life (Cuba) 2020
• Contributor, Lonely Planet Amazing Train Journeys  (Hershey Railway, Cuba)
• Contributor, Lonely Planet Global Coffee Tour book (El Café, Havana)
• Author, Frommer’s EasyGuide Cuba (2015, 2011, 2009 (6th, 5th and 4th edition)
• Writer + principal updater, Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Travel Cuba (2015, 2013, 2011)
• Writer, Lonely Planet Best in Travel 2014 (Trinidad, Cuba, in 2nd place in Top 10 Cities to Visit)
• Writer, Lonely Planet Cooks, Clowns and Cowboys (Learning Rumba & cigar-making)
• Writer, Rough Guide Cuba (2013)
• Author, Frommer’s Cuba Day by Day (2010), 1st edition
• Writer, Michelin Must See Havana (2012), 1st edition
• Writer, Footprint Cuba (2010, 2004, 2002, 2000) 5th, 4th, 3rd & 2 edition
• Contributor, Time Out Havana & the Best of Cuba (2007), 3rd edition

Radio, reviews, interviews & awards

• Runner-up 2023 LATA Media Awards Best Latin America Travel Feature - Newspaper (The wildlife & nature of Cuba's Isle of Youth)
• Bronze Award Winner 2022 AITO Travel Writer of the Year
• Winner of the 2022 Travel Media Awards Specialist Writer of the Year (Cuba)
• Winner of the 2021 Travel Media Awards Best Guidebook of the Year for Havana Pocket Precincts
• Shortlisted for the 2021 Travel Media Awards Specialist Writer of the Year (Cuba)
• Awarded the 2020 LATA Media Awards Top published Latin America photo
• Shortlisted for British Guild of Travel Writers' Travel Writer of the Year Award 2020 for a portfolio of 4 stories on Cuba & Laos
• Shortlisted for British Guild of Travel Writers' Travel Feature of the Year 2020 non-UK Award
• Shortlisted for British Guild of Travel Writers Transport Feature 2019: A Cycling Revolution. E-biking Cuba
• Quoted in Telegraph Travel Is Donald Trump about to spoil Cuba’s party?
• Awarded 2017 Latin American Travel Association top prize for best online blog post about the faux funeral of a man in Cuba: Burial of Pachencho
• Quoted in Telegraph Travel Tourism boom has turned Cuba into ‘Piccadilly Circus’
• Quoted in Cigar Aficionado Americans are flocking to Cuba but is the island ready? Aug 2016
• Skift quote European Tour Operators in Cuba Mull How U.S. Thaw Will Change Competition April 2016
• Talking on NPR’s OnPoint with Tom Ashbrook Travel to Cuba Feb 2016
• Quoted in Wanderlust magazine Cuba to phase out dual currency Oct 2013
• Quoted in Guardian Travel Entrepreneurs lead Cuba’s new revolution Dec 2012
• BBC Radio 4’s Excess Baggage. Talking about travel in Cuba with John McCarthy Jan 2010

Trip design & planning

• Essentialist
• Political Tours
• Private clients

Latin America stories

Press features

• Times Travel The thrilling Latin American nation still deliciously under radar
• Guardian Travel High Society: El Alto, Bolivia, steps into the spotlight
• Indy Travel Exploring the Bolivian jungle that inspired Daniel Radcliffe’s latest movie
• Adventure.com Can Jungle movie help save the Bolivian rainforest & ecotourism?
• Guardian Travel Exploring the Che Guevara Route in Bolivia
• Wild Travel Exploring the wildlife of the Panama Canal
• Wanderlust Foodie Antigua, chocolate, coffee and volcanoes in Guatemala (pdf)
• Wanderlust Exploring the Highlands of Guatemala (pdf)
• The Independent Easter in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, with Christ and Maximón
• i-escape.com Laguna Lodge
• The Independent Survival of the Fattest, Galápagos Islands

Guidebooks

• Co-author, Footprint Focus Guatemala (2011), 1st edition
• Co-author, Footprint Belize, Guatemala & Southern Mexico (2005 & 2008), 1st & 2nd edition
• Major contributor, Footprint Mexico & Central America (Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Mexico) 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008
• Researcher and writer, Alastair Sawday’s Green Places, 1st edition (2006)
• Author, Footprint Guatemala 1st edition (2002)

Radio, reviews, interviews & awards

• Awarded the 2020 LATA Media Awards Top published Latin America photo
• Shortlisted for AITO Travel Writer of the Year Award 2018 (Feature under 1,500 words) for Exploring the Che Guevara route in Bolivia

Southeast Asia stories

Press features

• New Zealand Herald What's it like to travel the first rail route through Laos
• Wanderlust Magazine Life in the fast lane
• Sunday Telegraph The high-speed train opening up the wonders of Laos
• Telegraph 20 must visit places to see in 2023 (taking the new Lao train)
• Times Travel Hanoi travel guide 
• Weather2Travel 9 ways to experience the best of Vietnam
• Times Travel The best trips to Vietnam for 2022
• Independent Journeying along the Mekong on the first eco cruise
• Wanderlust WanderSleeps 8 of the most characterful Hoi An stays
• Wanderlust WanderSleeps Seven of the finest stays in Luang Prabang
• Cruise Adviser Temple run Journey along the Mekong on first eco-cruise on the river
• Telegraph Pork, lemongrass – and the Laos factor Exploring Laos & its fragrant food
• Lao Airlines Magazine  Buffalo ice cream and cheese in Luang Prabang
• Telegraph Travel Dream Trips: Cruising Halong Bay
• Lao Airlines Magazine In the footsteps of giants: walking with elephants at Mandalao
• Lao Airlines Magazine Secrets of the Stone Temple, my story about exploring a buried-in-the-jungle unesco wonder in Laos for Lao Airlines Magazine, Wat Phou, Laos
• Lao Airlines Magazine The Brits forging a new path with the Lao Conservation Trust for Wildlife
• Guardian Travel Hanoi & Vientiane food tours: 20 of the best food tours around the world
• Lao Airlines Magazine Rosewood Luang Prabang review
• Travel&Leisure Asia A chef reviving ancient Lao recipes (At The Table Royal Revival pdf)
• Travel&Leisure Asia six design hotels are Millennial-approved
• Travel&Leisure Asia The six best hotels to celebrate a special occasion
• Travel&Leisure Asia Six hotels perfect for a family occasion
• Telegraph Travel Vientiane port guide
• Telegraph Travel Luang Prabang port guide
• Telegraph Travel Mekong River Cruise Guide
• Guardian Travel Tigers forever: a wildlife hike in north-east Laos
• Telegraph Travel Ultimate Laos itinerary
• Guardian Travel Undiscovered Asia
• Wanderlust Magazine Reaching new depths in Laos and the greatest river cave in the world
• (Wanderlust magazine Xe Bang Fai article pdf)
• Weather2Travel.com Why you should visit Phu Quoc island, Vietnam
• Guardian Travel Luang Prabang 3-day holiday itinerary
• Guardian Travel The ‘new’ Vang Vieng in Laos
• Independent First cruise of Vietnam’s Red River Delta with Pandaw; syndicated in The Australian
• Guardian Travel Two-week holiday itinerary in Laos
• Telegraph Travel From soldiers to sunbathers, how Vietnam’s China Beach became hip
• Telegraph Travel Dam threat to last few Mekong River dolphins
• Guardian Travel Top 10 budget hotels in Vientiane, Laos
• Telegraph Travel Exploring the communist cave hideout of Viengxay, Laos
• Guardian Travel Top 10 budget hotels in Luang Prabang
• Guardian Travel Three-day itinerary in Hanoi
• The Independent Vietnam’s new UNESCO World Heritage Site at Trang An
• Daily Telegraph Bai Tu Long and Halong Bay by boat and seaplane
• Guardian Travel Three-day itinerary in Saigon
• i-escape.com An Lam Saigon River
• i-escape.com An Lam Ninh Van Bay
• Guardian Travel Top 10 budget hotels in Ho Chi Minh City
• National Geographic Traveller City Life: Ho Chi Minh City
• The National Hotel insider: Amano’i, Nha Trang
• The National Exploring Nui Chua National Park & Amano’i, Vietnam
• Guardian Travel Top 10 boutique hotels in Hanoi
• Independent Slice of the City: Vientiane as Laos marks 60 years of independence from France
• Traveller My culinary faux pas under the railway arches, Hanoi, Vietnam
• Wanderlust What else is new in Vietnam and Laos
• Wanderlust The last of the wild-elephant catchers in the Central Highlands, Vietnam (pdf)
• Wanderlust First 24 hours in Ho Chi Minh City
• The Independent Communist cave hideout, Vieng Xai, Laos
• Time Out Stalking rhinos on elephantback in Nepal pdf
• Pathfinder Visiting Xeo Quit, Viet Cong subterranean base, Mekong Delta, Vietnam
• Scotsman Voluntourism – Building homes for the Kamaiya in Western Nepal
•  i-escape.com La Folie Lodge, Laos

Guidebooks & Apps

• Writer, InterContinental Hotels in Laos, Vientiane description
• Author, Footprint Vietnam Dream Trip (2013), 1st edition
• Author, Footprint Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos (2013), 4th edition
• Co-author, Footprint Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos (2010, 2008, 2005), 3rd, 2nd and 1st edition
• Author, Footprint Vietnam (2011, 2008), 6th edition and 5th edition
• Author, Footprint Laos (2010), 6th edition
• Editorial consultant and contributor, Dorling Kindersley Cambodia & Laos (2011), 1st edition
• Co-author, Footprint Southeast Asia (2012, 2010, 2009), 3rd, 2nd & 1st edition
• Writer, Time Out Adventure! (2009), 1st edition (Rhino safari on elephantback, Nepal)
• Editorial consultant and contributor, Dorling Kindersley Vietnam & Angkor Wat (2007), 1st edition
• Co-author, AA/Fodor Key guide Vietnam/See it Vietnam (2005), 1st edition
• Co-author, Footprint Thailand (2005), 5th edition
• Contributor, Footprint Laos (2005)
• Contributor, Footprint Vietnam (2004), 4th edition

Radio, reviews, interviews & awards

• Shortlisted for The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century to be published in March 2022 for my Lao food journey for Telegraph Travel
• Shortlisted for British Guild of Travel Writers' Travel Writer of the Year Award 2020 for a portfolio of 4 stories about Laos & Cuba

Morocco stories

Press features

• Wanderlust 8 best sleeps in Marrakech
• Condé Nast Traveller magazine Best places to stay, eat and drink in Fez, Morocco

Guidebooks & Apps

• Writer & commissioning editor Time Out Marrakech (2014, 4th edition)
• Writer, Time Out Morocco: Perfect Places to stay, eat & explore (2008), 1st edition (Fès, Meknès, Rabat, Middle Atlas and Taza)
• Photographer, Time Out Morocco: Perfect Places to stay, eat & explore (2008), 1st edition 
• Co-photographer, Footprint Marrakech (2004), 1st edition

UK stories

Press features

• Discover Britain Magazine The American 'Friendly Invasion' in East Anglia during World War Two
• i Paper Felixstowe: the south-facing Suffolk seaside town with award-winning beaches and a box park
• Telegraph Travel The Suffolk coast by bike
• Telegraph Travel 10 Great Ways to Discover England's Coast
• Wanderlust Magazine British Break Suffolk Coast
• Discover Britain Magazine On the trail of the self-styled Witchfinder General of 17th-century England
• Condé Nast Traveller: Restaurants with rooms (Retreat East & new Sur-Mer at The Suffolk, Aldeburgh)
• Indy Travel The best hotels in Suffolk for boutiques stays and seaside cool
• Telegraph Travel Move over Southwold – there's a new jewel in Suffolk's coastal crown
• Times Travel Take the road less travelled: cycling Norfolk's country lanes