Biography
So far I have spent time travelling across Oceania, the United Kingdom, Ireland, parts of Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. I have lived and worked in many of these places but always found the Mekong countries of Southeast Asia the most fascinating, especially Cambodia. I have had a lifelong interest in travel and enjoyed reading about far-off places and distant times, as well as the events of today. For me, the words "to wander" and "to wonder" have a magical attraction. I consider myself somewhat of a nomad, and no sooner have I arrived somewhere, than I think about where to next.
During my life I have worked in many different jobs including as a: kitchen-hand, hospital orderly, postal worker, driver, barman, farm worker, night porter, building labourer, as well as in a gold mine in the middle of a desert, and lots of other things besides. The great advantage of this experience was in the people I met from all backgrounds including those characters well-read, well-versed, and well-travelled, all of whom helped spark my curiosity and broadened my horizons. Somewhere in amongst all that I spent time at university where I read history and later international relations focusing mainly on the Asia-Pacific region. Over the years, in between travelling spells, I have held advisory roles in different countries in government and with NGOs.
I have always had a keen interest in world and current events, and like reading, music, film, and football, the global game. My travel writing is the product of wide reading and much lived experience, together with a natural eye for a killer fact and a great story. My aim with this website is to educate, inform, entertain, and inspire the reader.
There is no destination, the journey is everything.
The writer in Mondulkiri, Cambodia
