Travels with Charley and the Travel Media Awards in Dublin!

I was rooting through some books that I haven't finished because of my travels and I came across the very wonderful Travels with Charley by none other than the brilliant John Steinbeck. I bought my copy while I was at the authors family home, pictured above, in the town of Salinas, California. My children posed patiently while I ranted and and raved my way around the house wh...
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Travel awards and dream trips!

In between writing my novels I love going on journeys and writing travel features for newspapers and magazines. Today I got a lovely email from the Caribbean Tourism Organisation telling me that my feature about Havana, which was published in the Irish Mail on Sunday in May, has been shortlisted in the Best National Feature Category! I will be attending the ceremony in London o...
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