How about this volcano in Iceland, eh? It has a bit of a hissy fit and the world’s aviation industry goes into a tailspin. I’m meant to be going to Istanbul on Monday. The plan was to start there and then head into Iraqi Kurdistan. From the look of things that trip is dead in [...]

A big thanks to everyone who turned up to my talk at the TNT Travel Show on Saturday. It’s always fun talking about my adventures. And nice to put a face to people who have emailed me. Like Julian Poole. He’s putting together some plans for a grand overland adventure that sounds like it’s going [...]

Just wanted to say a big thanks to everyone who came along to my talks at Adventure Travel Live yesterday. It was fun talking to you all and I hope I helped inspire you all to go off and have your own amazing adventures. A hearty thanks as well to Chris and all the guys [...]

If you’re in London on January 31 and find yourself wandering aimlessly in the vicinity of the Royal Horticultural Pavilions please feel free to pop in and listen to either one or both of my chats. The first one is on at 11am and sees my holding forth on the topic of using social media [...]

I stuck pins marking where I’d been on my giant poster of the UK the other day and noticed a Yorkshire-shaped pin-free zone. Then, out of the blue, I got an email from Mandy Williams inviting me up to her new bookstore, Bohemian Books, in Castleford. I, of course, interpreted that as fate. That’s why [...]

I had a couple of beers with some of the people who came along to my talk at the TNT Travel Show on Saturday. As usual they were an interesting bunch – a Kiwi girl called Kyles who is about to cycle overland back to Oz, a concierge from one of the city’s top hotels [...]

Yep, it’s that time of the year again. I’m giving a talk about travelling through Africa at the TNT Travel Show next week. The talk starts at 2.30 pm and will go for about an hour. I’ll be flogging and signing copies of my books for a fiver after the show and then nipping down [...]

I’m giving two talks at the TNT Travel Show in London tomorrow. It’s on at the New Connaught Rooms, 61-65 Great Queen St, London WC2. I’ve embedded a Google Map below. The first one is called Getting Off The Gringo Trail and is about travelling through difficult and challenging destinations. It’s on at 11 am. [...]

More housekeeping from last year today – an entry about the gig I did at Mary Ryan’s in Brisbane back in the middle of December. I always like doing events in Brisbane. There’s always a good turn out and the crowd (almost) always laugh at my jokes. And my mum always comes down from the [...]

The New Year is thirteen days old so I figured it was time to clear up a bit of blog housekeeping from last year. There were a lot of people I meant to thank here online – particularly during my tour of OZ – but I either didn’t get the time or a reliable internet [...]