Freelance travel and lifestyle writer
United Kingdom
THE IMPORTANT STUFF
Punctual + Reliable + Enthusiastic + Curious
I have written travel pieces for titles like The London Paper, Real Travel and TNT as well as multiple fitness/lifestyle/nutrition features for Runner's World UK. Perhaps my favourite articles were about the fall of the Berlin Wall and on refugees in Bosnia for the Catholic Herald. In an age of celebrity, the social history of ordinary people amid extraordinary events fascinates me.
More recently I have used my arts background and a decade of tour guiding in East London (UK) to write articles for a local paper in Hackney Wick. I record the frictions and growing pains of a gentrifying post-industrial artist colony that is now the hottest property in the mega-city.
My blogging was picked out by the FT as 'pithily observant' when it reviewed the (Oxygen Books) City-Lit Berlin anthology I featured in.
MORE ABOUT ME
To bastardise the great Graham Greene: travel made me.
From tour guiding on four continents and sharing my beloved London with Americans, to volunteering with refugees in wartime Ukraine and the infamous French port of Calais, this polyglot travels to understand.
I also walk, run, hitch and hike to test myself and to grow. I'm interested in how big ideas meet everyday experience and how we reconcile the crises and moral issues of our time. How do we square flying's environmental damage with the knowledge and revelation that awaits us abroad? How do we balance the needs of nation-states with the mass migration of millions?
Europe is changing and so are we - as a society and as individuals. I am documenting the historic moment of flux our continent finds itself in, determined to experience as much of it as I can. The writer bears witness for others, but I am also engaged in 'sense-making' on their behalf as I ask the question: where does Europe go next?
