The Stunning Gorges Of Karijini National Park In Western Australia Karijini National Park. A semi arid desert. A dry, red and dusty national park in the North West of Australia. Hundreds of miles inland, miles from the nearest towns and even further from any cities,...
Wave Rock, Western Australia. Is It A Wave? Or Is It A Rock? The car was lifting up huge plumes of red dust which trailed behind us as we drove along the unwavering straight, gravel road that stretched for hundreds of kilometres into the Western Australian interior,...
24 Hours From Aktau, Kazakhstan To Kungrad, Uzbekistan I awoke in the sweltering summer heat of Kazakhstan. The Kazakh summer is dry and dusty and the fierce Central Asian sun is relentless, even in the early morning. The old motel room I was staying in was stale with...
Tashkent is the heart of Uzbekistan If you’re one of the few travellers who make it to this isolated and rarely visited Central Asian nation- if you make it past the post-Soviet bureaucracy, if you come to terms with the strange black market currency system and...
Tashkent Is a City Like No Other In Uzbekistan It’s a huge sprawl, densely packed with drab Soviet buildings and ugly apartment blocks. Tashkent is a city that lost its history when an earthquake levelled Uzbekistan’s capital, a city that was rebuilt from...
Along the Borders chronicles my multi-year journey along Britain's borders, boundaries and frontiers. Published by Penguin Random House, and available now!