Hello. My name is Peter Moore and I’m an author who writes about travel.
The picture above is quite old now. It was taken in the back blocks of Tanzania, somewhere out towards the border with Rwanda. I’ve got a lot less hair now, but it sums up perfectly everything I love about travel.
I’m still searching for places that are authentic and a little bit different. No floaty sundresses or hipster beards here.
Just the world in all its tarnished glory.
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Bar Glavpivtorg, Moscow
Politburo chic in the Russian capital I went to an event hosted by Intrepid last night. They were promoting their range of food-themed tours and had taken over the School of Wok in Covent Garden so the Katrina and Karina from Russian Revels could teach us how to make pelmeni. Pelmeni are the Russian version…
Jack in the Green, Hastings
A bit of pagan revelry beside the English seaside One of the things that always fascinated me about England was the remnants of pagan history around the country. From the stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury Ring to the strange bearded Morris Men ringing their bells and clacking their sticks outside pubs on Boxing Day,…
Cut price Kosovo
History, wild places and meals that will stop you in your tracks, Europe’s newest country packs quite a punch. And that’s before you get started on the local raki. By my third day in Kosovo, I began to suspect that my arrival in each town was being preceded by that of a representative of the…
Borealis on a budget
Want an unforgettable trip on the cheap? You don’t get much more spectacular than the Northern Lights. Here’s how to see them for less than £250 (yes, really!) Örjan, a gruff, weathered man in his 50s, had a very particular system for rating northern lights displays. A one out of ten, he said, was a…
