I hit the road in Bali, on nothing but a 125cc motorcycle and armed only with a mask and snorkel and some questionable driving skills. Indonesia’s most popular island is a magnet for tourists and travellers, and some would say it’s over run, that the...
In Cappadocia, I went underground with New Goreme Tours. Cappadocia is renowned for its surreal, at times even psychedelic landscape. The wind and the rain have for millennia shaped the contours of this land into an hallucinogenic, other worldly spectacle, while the...
The Balloons of Cappadocia. Cappadocia, a contorted landscape of surreal rock shapes and psychedelic stone patterns. It’s a place that displays the randomness and beauty of nature’s creative abilities, in an open air forum that never...
Here’s my travel round up for March! I’ve been on the road a lot since my last ‘proper’ round up of events in January, when I headed on over to Bali for a few weeks in the Sun. I explored an abandoned theme park, did a spot of SCUBA diving and...
“Care! Radiation!” The sign warned that I was entering the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. There was no turning back now. My documents were checked, and the armed guards waved us across the security line, straight into the fallout area. The Chernobyl disaster...
Along the Borders chronicles my multi-year journey along Britain's borders, boundaries and frontiers. Published by Penguin Random House, and available now!