European City Breaks

Footprint’s new European City Breaks guide uses lots of my photos, of Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Florence, Lisbon, London, Milan, Naples, Paris, Rome, Seville, Valencia, Venice and Verona.

I also wrote some of it!

It’s a good book to have on the shelf to inspire long weekends.

Photography

Frozen Lakes

The Lake District was a frozen wonderland last week. I was there to update the Cumbria chapter of Fodor's England guide, which is getting a colour makeover this year. There wasn't much [...]

Writing

XFM Top 1000 Tunes

I've been writing music reviews for a forthcoming book: The XFM Top 1000 Tunes of All Time. Apart from being another branch to my polymath/indecisive portfolio, it was a great opportunity to [...]

The h2 Solution

Web

The h2 Solution

The new h2 Solution website is now live. I designed and built it from scratch for the h2 Solution, a business consultancy specialising in diversity and equality management. I also designed their

Verona

Photography

Verona

It was a bit of a shock when someone pointed out that I hadn't been back since I wrote my Verona guide seven years ago. It's certainly overdue an update, though [...]

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 [...]

iPhone app – weather charts

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 [...]