Sweaty Craic! Cycling Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way (Day 4)
Day 4 Killkee to Lahinch (99km) Shipwrecks seemed an appropriate theme for another feisty day along the Atlantic coast in County Clare as...
Sweaty Craic! Cycling Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way (day 3)
Day 3: Killarney to Killkee (119.5km) On really tough long days of cycling, as this was, the 3rd day of my attempt to cycle end-to-end...
Sweaty Craic! Cycling Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way (Day 2)
Day 2: Glen Garrif to Killarney (71km) Just pedalled into Killarney in County Kerry after a medium-length day with some lung-bursting...
Sweaty Craic! Cycling Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way
Day 1: Mizen Head to Glengarrif (60km) Just so we are clear here, over the next 12 days I'll be cycling nowhere near the Irish backstop....
Gerewol: Africa's most surreal beauty pageant
On a continent where women are the backbone of African society yet receive little recognition or representation the Gerewol festival in...
How to cycle the Tour de France's loftiest peaks ... and survive to tell the tale.
The Tour de France begins today in Noirmoutier-en-l’Île and once again as a keen amateur cyclist I'll sit back and admire Herculean tasks...
On the run ... barely a digital nomad
It's all glamour this travel writing malarkey. I'm frittering away time at Cairns domestic airport en route to frittering away even more...
Illuminating the Dark Continent - 8 new African adventures for 2018
My first writing assignment for 2018 will be a short trip to the West African state of Liberia in early January. You may have heard of it...
Sightseeing without sight
One of the most remarkable travel companies I have worked for in recent years is Traveleyes. They match blind or visually-impaired...
On thin ice ... No safety net
I’ve just returned from 16 incredible days at sea traversing part of the Canadian Nunavut Arctic to sail down the North West Passage....