Sport, travel, food, art, humour. Award winning author of 13 non-fiction books. Based in North East England. Contributing editor to Conde Nast Traveller UK. Wrote 800+ columns for the Guardian.
A great walk to a great pub: The Wallace Arms, Rowfoot, North Pennines
A walk through an area once populated by murderous clans leading to a cosy pub in rural Northumberland
A great walk to a great pub: the Drover’s Rest, Cumbria
A warm, cosy hostelry with splendid sausage sandwiches rewards walkers on this Solway coast stroll through Roman, medieval and Victorian history
The nation's best-kept secret for walking and wildlife holidays
Paused for a breather after the steep walk up Wether Hill above the Breamish Valley in Northumberland, I find myself humming Jerome Moross’s title music for The Big Country. The wide blue skies and the bleached barren mounds of the Cheviot Hills have an epic quality that always calls to mind a cowboy film.Perhaps that’s not so far off the mark historically either. This area was once Britain’s answer to the Wild West.
Full steam ahead — how artists embraced the age of the train
The locomotive roared through European art for more than a century, inspiring English Romantics, French Impressionists, Italian Futurists and Belgian Surrealists. Harry Pearson tracks its epic journey
In the autumn of 1825, a wheezing, panting, cast-iron contraption designed by George and Robert Stephenson chugged out of the County Durham town of Shildon in the north of England. Named Locomotion No 1, the steam engine was hauling 20 coal wagons and an experimental passenger coach containing c...
Piero Manzoni in Denmark
Controverisal Italian artists Piero Manzoni made many of his best known works in a shirt factory in rural Denmark.
Five of England's less-visited counties for days out and short breaks
Tyne and Wear
Whitburn, Marsden Rock and "The Roker Riviera"
To Best Experience Alaska’s Burgeoning Local Food Movement, Go in Winter
Travelling through Alaska in March.
Faroe Islands holidays & travel guide | Denmark (Condé Nast ...
Faroe Islands holidays & travel guide | Denmark (Co...
Ghent, Belgium - a guide to the best hotels, restaurants and bars in ...
Ghent, Belgium - a guide to the best hotels, restau...
City guide: Reykjavík, Iceland - Vogue Living
City guide: Reykjavík, Iceland - Vogue Living
An English railway journey back in time
The Esk Valley line transports pilgrims to a Yorkshire town made famous by its crop of giant gooseberries
'We saw a man brandishing a cleaver': My family holiday in one of Asia's seediest backwaters
When I tell my father the Malaysian city of Ipoh has lately become a hipster destination, praised for its street food, graffiti art and Edwardian baroque architecture, he snorts derisively....
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The Dark Side of London in the Swinging Sixties
While the spotlight shone on the hip and the happening in sixties London, criminals of every type were busy in the shadows.Here are eight gripping true crime books that show a darker side of the swinging city.
Hughie Gallacher: The glory and tragedy of a Newcastle United and Scotland legend
The moving story of one of Scotland's greatest ever footballers