journalism

  • Timbuktu and Bust

    Timbuktu and Bust

    Journalist, Eugene Costello and I are driving from the UK (North Shields…) to Bamako, Mali, a distance of over 4,100 miles, departing 26th December. Our planned route traverses Europe, taking a ferry from Spain into Morocco, then heads south, across the deserts of Western Sahara and Mauritania, into Senegal and finally crosses into Mali around…

  • Chicken Telly

    Chicken Telly

    My laptop’s on.  I’ve chucked another log on the stove. Outside on the windowsill two chickens dibble amongst their feathers, pause, press against the window, extend their necks and stare in, pecking at spots of dirt on the glass. Tap. tap, tap, tap… My inbox proffers a couple of press trip invitations.  Both are vaguely…

  • Travel Journalism WTF?

    Travel Journalism WTF?

    Having cleared my desk before Christmas – all commissioned pieces filed – I find myself inhabiting the un-festive season of oh-bloody-hell-now-what?  A few loose ideas dangle in the uncertain future but that’s about it.  Although I know I’m doing it, writing instead of writing and pitching inevitably leads to this abyss.  Like Wile E Coyote,…