High Cumbrian Valleys

I’ve been in the Lake District, updating Fodor’s England guidebook. Highlights were great meals in the Queen’s Head in Troutbeck and The Jumble Room in Grasmere. There was also time for a few fantastic walks, especially a birthday climb up a snowy Thornthwaite Crag, a trek up Langstrath Beck towards Scafell and a final day circuit [...]

London snow

Photography

London snow

We only missed a complete dumping by about 25 miles, but with the last couple of days looking as Christmas-beautiful as this it's hard to complain too much about our meagre inch [...]

Writing

Death and the Burger

"Halfway down Talaa Kebira, another sheep is parked, tied to a breezeblock while its new owner gets a haircut." Sheep slaughter, food and festivities in Fes's medina - my column in today's Independent [...]

Web

St George Driving

St George’s Driving School in East Sussex is a great place to learn to drive, with loads of experience, a high pass rate and a patient and friendly instructor. They offer door-to-door

Fine Fes Food

Photography

Fine Fes Food

Cafe Clock, in Fes, Morocco, is the city's (and perhaps the country's) best cafe: a social nexus as well as a great place for a coffee or a camel burger. Last week [...]

Writing

Marrakech and Essaouira

My current project is a new book on Marrakech, Essaouira and the Atlas for Footprint. I just spent two weeks out there finding some new places, taking photos and meeting some great [...]

Blog

iPhone app – weather charts

Many raw charts on which weather forecasters base predictions are freely available on the internet, notably on wetterzentrale. The site is badly formatted for iPhones, however, so I've written a free web [...]