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Second Prize in Trip Fiction Sense of Place Competition
I was delighted to discover last week that I had come second in a writing competition which 400 people from 35 countries entered. The remit was to write a piece of fiction or non-fiction under 3000 words that had a strong sense of place.
I…

How to take a family gap year
I won runner up prize for The Green Parent writing competition 2018, talking about how we can travel responsibly with our families.
Please find the article in full here.

Speaking to students in India
Well, I have left Nairobi and I am now in India for 6 months, travelling with my family! For more on our Indian travelling adventures, take a look at our website and blog, familygappers.com. We even have a vlog which you can subscribe to on…

Use this powerful tool to choose your next holiday read
Travelling and Reading: Two of my favourite things in the world. Imagine my delight, then, when I discovered TripFiction.com, a website devoted to location-based fiction. There are so many of us who, when we go on holiday, would love to delve…

Novel Number Three: The cave men and women from the 1960's
There are experiences in our young lives we look back upon with a fervent fondness that the passing of time does nothing to dampen. These experiences can last for mere days, perhaps several weeks, months or even years. I'm talking about those…

5 Top Tips for Journalling with Kids
'I'm tired of glossy, re-touched, plastic, overdubbed, laughtracked, advertised experience. I want crude - straight from the soul.'
Hannah Hichman
What is journalling, if not straight from the soul? That experience of one person and a blank…

Which kids' book inspired one man to cycle across the globe?
SuperCyclingMan, currently in Germany
I have a friend I went to university with, Will Hodson, who is currently at the start of a five year cycling journey that will take him across all seven continents. And not only that, but he is cycling…

Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson, beloved Scottish author of Treasure Island as well as a number of other books for children and adults and an abundance of poems and musical compositions, travelled a great deal throughout his life before finally making…