A short guide to what I love about Marrakech and how best to spend your time there!

Venice is every bit as beautiful as I expected, but I chose to try and avoid crowded hotspots as much as possible.

Taking a trip on the sleeper train from Tangier to Marrakech in Morocco. The best way to travel (and sleep) is by rail it would seem.

Ness is a book by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood. It is a piece of prose-poetry, illustrated by imagery of decaying military ephemera

Arriving after dark for a brief stopover in Milan and being a little unimpressed, not least with my own apathy.

After a late night, I head to Plage des Catalans, before jumping on the train from Marseille to Milan, via the coastline.

I needed an idea for a holiday. So I went east from Marseille to Istanbul by train. Here I meet a friend in Marseille, starting my travels.

‘Edgelands’ by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts attempts to look into those gaps between the urban landscape and the countryside.

There comes a time when you actually have to stop talking and actually do something. Take action. Make a move. This was one of them.

In theory, the concept is simple: a man reads a book about another man who decided to busk his way across Spain, wants to emulate it and...

Following a trip to Ireland last February, I decided that maybe it was time that I headed north to Scotland. The maternal side of my...

Sometimes, the measure of a good summer is when one day rolls benignly into the other. When you're content with your surroundings and the...

Wild swimming in the English Channel in January is probably at the slightly more absurd end of the Microadventure spectrum.

Having done this trip twice previously, you would think I was used to it; dragging myself to the downstairs lobby of a concrete tower...

It’s been nearly two years that I’ve been talking about my desire to go wild camping. So far I’ve bored my parents intermittently and...

On the train to Galway, I had the suspicion that something was going on. I had been talking about almost every topic under the sun with...

After recovering from sleep deprivation caused by late night plane transfers and early arrivals, I walked up the winding Alemdar Caddesi...

Marrakech station is an architecturally magnificent mixture of older Moroccan motifs combined with modern palatial glass windows. It...

The day after arriving in Istanbul, on a visit in early April, I had done what I often do when travelling, let my feet discover the city...

Awake to watercolour-clear morning, broad-brushed by faded amber conflagration seen from the kitchen window. But through the lost, the...