I’m a UK-based travel journalist whose work reaches an American audience. As co-founder of Food Drink Life, my reporting publishes through its own direct feed onto the Associated Press wire, and feeds directly into BLOX Digital, the same networks hundreds of online outlets draw from, with further syndication to MSN, Flipboard and Yahoo.
Because Food Drink Life is a publisher in its own right, my coverage goes live on editorial merit, without waiting on a commission. I work closely with a destination and cover it as a connected series, telling its story across several angles rather than in a single overview.
This is earned editorial, not paid placement. There is no media fee: the only investment is hosting the visit itself. I cover a destination because I judge it worth covering, and that independence is what makes the coverage credible to the readers who see it.
My work has appeared in outlets including the Chicago Sun-Times, the Boston Herald, the Seattle Times and SF Weekly.
I’ve traveled widely, with Kenya, Thailand, Egypt, Finland and Italy among my favorite destinations. My reporting spans luxury travel, food-and-drink-led destinations, distinctive hotels and adventure experiences, built from firsthand reporting, on-the-ground interviews and the practical detail that tells readers not just where to go, but why a place is worth the trip. I’m a PADI Advanced diver, which opens up dive-led stories most travel writers can’t cover.
For press trips and partnerships, I prioritize well-planned itineraries that translate strongly for readers and offer scope for a multi-story series.
Where my work reaches
My reporting is published through Food Drink Life’s direct feed to the Associated Press wire, the service whose member network spans thousands of U.S. television stations and publications.
It also feeds into BLOX Digital, a platform serving more than 2,000 media clients across the U.S. and beyond, and syndicates to MSN, Flipboard and Yahoo.
As co-founder, I decide what I cover and publish it directly, with no commissioning gatekeeper, which means a destination is never left hosting a trip that produces no coverage.
Let’s Collaborate
I work with destinations, hotels, and lifestyle brands that want coverage reaching an American audience, published directly rather than pitched and hoped for.
I have limited availability in November and December 2026, and I’m currently scheduling media trips and brand partnerships through early 2027. If you have a destination or property you think would make for interesting coverage, get in touch and let’s talk about the story it could become.
Articles
The Alaska cruise view is changing fast, and 1.7 million passengers a year have a narrowing window to catch it
The Seattle Times, August 04, 2026
At the head of an Alaska fjord, a slab of Dawes Glacier breaks loose with a sound between a crack and a thunderclap, drops into the sea and throws up a wall of white water. Hundreds of passengers at the ship’s railing gasp at once. Calving is one of the signature sights of an Alaska cruise, and it is also the glacier breaking apart, which is happening quicker now than it did a generation ago.
Record numbers of Americans are dining at historic British estates kept in the family for centuries
WTNZ Fox 43, July 30, 2026
Visit most of Britain’s great houses open to the public, and you get a ticket desk, a gift shop and a rope keeping you a polite distance from the furniture; a handful work differently. The family that has owned the place for centuries still lives there and farms the land, and the way in is through the food: a pub, a grill, a walled garden that grows what lands on the plate. For an American who has already toured the castles and cathedrals, this is what the next trip is for.
Watching a sea turtle nest is a bucket-list moment, but most travelers do it wrong
Fox 54 News, July 29, 2026
On a dark beach, a guide raises a hand and everyone stops, and then a few yards up the sand, a female turtle drags herself out of the surf and starts to dig. No flash, no lights, no one moves closer than the guide allows; she lays, buries the nest and hauls back to the water. That is one way to watch a turtle nest, while the other, sold on beaches around the world, is a bucket of hatchlings, a paid release at noon and a phone in every hand.
More Americans are visiting Kenya than ever, and Nairobi’s food is the reason to arrive hungry
The Seattle Times, July 27, 2026
For years, Nairobi was the place travelers slept before the real trip began. They landed late, checked into a hotel and were gone by dawn toward the Mara or Amboseli, the city nothing more than headlights on the way to the bush; the safari was the only story anyone came to tell. That is changing at the table, as Nairobi turns into a stop worth building a night around before the safari begins, a city to arrive in hungry rather than pass straight through.
The old wine estates luring Americans to Europe now serve food as serious as the wine
WFMZ-TV 69 News, July 23, 2026
The best table at a Saint-Émilion estate is not in the dining room but is out on the terrace at dusk, where the wine in the glass was grown on the slope you can see from your chair; the plate in front of you came from the kitchen garden below it. This is what the American who travels for the food and wine, not the landmarks, is after. The working wine estate itself, not the hotel with a good list, where the family, the vineyard, the kitchen and the cellar all answer to the same people.
Some of the world’s best 5-star bargains are hiding where Americans aren’t looking
WPGX Fox 28, July 21, 2026
A five-star night in the United States now averages about $370. That same standard, the marble bathroom, the private beach and the brand on the door, runs closer to $250 once an American books it abroad; a gap that held for a second year in a row. More travelers are treating that difference as a reason to fly, and the deepest discounts are turning up in places most Americans have never thought to look, though Europeans have been booking them for years.
Americans are splitting the honeymoon in 2, and the trip they are saving for is a safari
WTNZ Fox 43, July 14, 2026
The wedding is over, and the couple has already taken a quick trip away, a long weekend somewhere warm and close. The honeymoon itself is still to come. More American couples are splitting the tradition into two: a short getaway right after the wedding and a much bigger trip planned months or a year later, and the latter increasingly points toward Africa.
Americans are choosing Portugal in record numbers, and the trips they are booking are nowhere near Lisbon or the Algarve
The Seattle Times, July 13, 2026
Portugal’s interior has something its coastline does not: space. East of Évora the cork oaks take over, the wheat plains stretch without interruption and the whitewashed villages sit far enough from the main roads that most visitors never reach them. For most of the past decade, American travelers arrived in Lisbon and headed south, but a growing number are heading east instead.
More than 661,000 travelers just ranked the world’s hotels, and Africa’s bush camps beat almost every city on the list
WFMZ-TV 69 News, July 08, 2026
Only three properties on Earth scored higher than a game reserve on a South African river: two of them are Maldivian resorts, and one is a hotel in Osaka. That reserve has no city around it, no shopping, no theater district, just leopards and guides who know where to find them at first light. When hundreds of thousands of travelers were asked to name the finest hotels in the world, they placed it fourth, above every grand hotel in Paris, London and New York.
The African safari is splitting into ultra-luxury and budget, and the middle-tier trip is caught in the squeeze
Fox 54 News, July 07, 2026
The African safari is one of the great someday trips, the one people file away for a birthday that ends in zero or a year they finally feel flush. File it away long enough, though, and the trip changes while you wait. In 2026, the safari is splitting into a booming ultra-luxury tier and a widening budget one, with the familiar middle-priced trip caught between them; that middle is becoming two different decisions, and the one you were picturing is the one under the most pressure.
Iceland’s tourists keep coming. The problem is how fast they leave
The Seattle Times, July 6, 2026
Hundreds of thousands of Americans will fly to Iceland this summer, and most will still treat it as a long weekend: land, race the Golden Circle, fly home. That quick version of the trip is exactly what the country is now trying to change. The part worth planning for is what comes after the sightseeing, when the tour buses leave and the sun is still high near midnight, and a growing number of travelers are skipping the drive back to Reykjavik to soak in a geothermal lagoon and stay the night nearby.
New US flights to Italy are betting on food country, not the Colosseum
WPGX Fox 28, July 2, 2026
Book a nonstop to Italy this summer, and the surprise is where the newest flights actually go; not Rome, not Venice. The routes U.S. airlines have added fastest drop you in Sicily, in Naples, in the heel of the boot. Americans still have their pick of flights to the marquee cities, but the new routes, the first-ever ones, and the extra flights are aimed at the country you go to for the food.
The world’s top tourist destinations are done selling sunsets and are betting everything on dinner
The Seattle Times, July 1, 2026
The next trip you book may come down to a question that barely mattered a decade ago: What will you eat when you get there? Scenery and price once settled the idea, and the food was something you figured out after you landed. That order has reversed, and the places competing for your visit know it; more and more, they are selling the meal, not the view.
Travel just hit a 6-year low, but the people still booking are paying to sleep in places most travelers would be afraid to
WFMZ-TV 69 News, July 1, 2026
The hotel rooms Americans pay the most to sleep in this year are the ones that should frighten them off. They are pinned to cliff faces, sunk beneath the sea, carved from river ice and parked in the path of polar bears. As most of the country quietly cancels its travel plans, a small band of Americans spends more than ever to wake up somewhere that should not be possible.
Americans are spending billions on wine trips, and 2026’s most surprising vineyards are nowhere near Napa
SF Weekly, June 29, 2026
The picture most people carry of a wine trip is fixed: rolling rows in Napa or Sonoma, a cellar in Bordeaux, a Tuscan hillside at golden hour. It is a lovely picture, but it is increasingly out of date. Americans are pouring billions into wine travel, and a growing share of that money is leaving California behind for colder, stranger and older places most people could not find on a wine map.
The world’s northernmost Michelin star is now in Arctic Norway
The Seattle Times, June 25, 2026
The 2026 Michelin Guide Nordic Countries did something it had never done before: it awarded a star to a restaurant north of the Arctic Circle. That restaurant is Kvitnes Gård, a self-sufficient farm in the Vesterålen archipelago, and it is now the world’s northernmost Michelin-starred establishment. For American travelers who build trips around a single great meal, the takeaway is sharper than one star.
Sleep in caves in Cotignac, the French town you’ve never heard of
WPGX Fox 28, June 8, 2026
American travelers set records in France last year, yet most never made it past the Riviera coastline to Cotignac, a Provence village at the foot of a sheer rock face. Those who drive an hour inland find hotel rooms carved into the cliff, a Michelin-recognized kitchen and the rosé producer whose bottles already sit on U.S. shelves.
Sint Maarten, Aruba and San Juan are the Caribbean’s fastest-rising destinations for summer vacations
The Seattle Times, May 29, 2026
Three Caribbean islands see the sharpest search spikes heading into summer 2026. Sint Maarten, Aruba and San Juan outpace the broader Caribbean trend by a wide margin, and booking now is still the window to get ahead of peak crowds and peak prices.
Safari bookings among US travelers have surged, and what they want has changed
WTNZ Fox 43, May 27, 2026
The African safari, built around Big Five sightings, packed game drives and as many parks as possible per trip, gives way to a slower, more selective approach. Safari bookings through U.S. luxury travel advisors are up 22%, and the trips behind that number look nothing like the game-drive circuit most travelers picture.
Americans are done with whirlwind vacations, and the booking data proves it
WFMZ-TV 69 News, May 13, 2026
Search interest in slow travel hit an all-time high in 2026, according to Google’s 2026 travel trends data, with searches for “slow travel Italy” alone climbing 100% in a single month. At the same time, bookings for trips of more than eight days grew by 19% compared to the prior year, which indicates a clear, measurable shift in how Americans choose to spend their time away.
Kenya’s coast is the safari ending Americans keep missing
The Greeneville Sun, May 11, 2026
Americans already cross oceans for Kenya’s wildlife, but too many still plan as if the country ends at the edge of the bush. After days that start before sunrise, throwing dust into your hair and scanning every patch of grass for a flicker of movement, safari somehow keeps you hungry for one more drive, one more sighting and one more story from the guide. The coast gives travelers time to come down from that intensity without leaving Kenya.
The story of a girl, an American soldier and fate across decades
WPGX Fox 28, April 29, 2026
In the south of France, in the picturesque village of Cotignac, a wartime encounter between a young girl and an American soldier became a story that would stretch across decades and continents. At the center of it now is Lou Calen, a cultural and artistic hotel whose history is closely tied to Huguette Caren, a girl who received an unexpected gift on Liberation Day in 1944 and later became part of the property’s own story.
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Luxury Kenya safari itineraries can fail before the first game drive
WTNZ Fox 43, April 20, 2026
A luxury safari in Kenya can begin to unravel before the first game drive, and the reason is rarely wildlife; it is timing. Travelers land after an overnight international flight and connect straight to the bush, reaching the Mara in time for an early wake-up call the next morning. By the second day, some spend prime wildlife viewing hours trying to recover from travel.
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Providenciales brings Turks and Caicos marine life up close
February 18, 2026
Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean are known for clear water, but some of its most reliable wildlife viewing happens away from the open beach. On Providenciales, mangrove wetlands lie a short drive from the resort strip, and sheltered channels can hold juvenile turtles and fish in water shallow enough to see from a kayak or paddleboard.
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Liverpool’s waterfront tells an American story beyond The Beatles
February 16, 2026
Liverpool’s waterfront reads like a record of America’s rise. Tobacco from Virginia passed through its warehouses, passenger liners sailed regularly to New York and the 1915 sinking of the Liverpool-registered Lusitania shifted U.S. public opinion during World War I. Long before it became shorthand for The Beatles, this English port was tied to the American economy in ways still visible along the River Mersey.
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Planning mistakes derail safari trips before they begin
February 12, 2026
Most safari trips do not fail in the bush; they fail during planning when flight timing, packing decisions and wildlife expectations are misunderstood. This sets problems in motion long before travelers board a small plane to the field.
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Travelers seek slower Valentine’s Day dinners far from home
February 12, 2026
On Valentine’s Day, dinner in many cities runs on a schedule. Reservations are stacked, menus are narrowed to prix fixe options and tables turn quickly. For couples who want the night to feel unhurried, the alternative is sometimes distance: planning the meal far from home, where the setting dictates the pace.
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Luxury travelers compare 2 trip plans before choosing an expert
January 27, 2026
In luxury travel, the fastest way to ruin a high-dollar trip is a plan that looks good on paper but collapses on the ground. Some services try to reduce that risk by having two destination specialists submit competing itineraries up front, giving travelers a side-by-side test of pacing, access and logistics before they commit.
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What separates a strong Northern Lights trip from an expensive letdown
January 26, 2026
Northern Lights trips are built around a simple aim: getting travelers under dark skies when the aurora appears. The lights can be seen across high-latitude regions, but they cannot be guaranteed to be visible anywhere. Luxury operators sell a different promise: a trip designed to improve the chances during a short, expensive window, with small groups, darker-sky locations and a backup plan for nights when the forecast disappoints.
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Kent is emerging as England’s most compelling luxury escape
January 12, 2026
The spirit of Christmas comes alive in Vienna through its markets, where the warmth of good food rivals the city’s lights. Beneath strings of golden bulbs, visitors share steaming mugs of punch paired with freshly baked treats. Every flavor shares a piece of the city’s story, turning each market square into a place of tradition and comfort.
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The British city that plays the US on screen
January 7, 2026
Liverpool has been hiding in plain sight on American screens for decades; you have likely seen its streets pass for New York, Washington or another U.S. city without ever realizing it. That familiarity is the trick: nothing about Liverpool announces itself as foreign, and nothing gives away the illusion. On camera, it looks real because it already feels known.
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Americans love reindeer in December, but for herders, it is one of the toughest months of the year
December. 24, 2025
In December, reindeer appear everywhere in the United States: on holiday cards, store windows and TV ads, becoming part of the season’s joy. In northern Finland, above the Arctic Circle, the same month brings a different reality for the people who depend on reindeer for their living.
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Thinking of an African safari? Here’s where your travel dollars actually go
December 1, 2025
Safaris come with high prices and even higher expectations, and more travelers want to know what their money supports beyond the game drives. Some operators have answered that question directly by outlining how guest fees contribute to conservation work and local livelihoods instead of leaving the financial picture opaque.
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Where a weekly Caribbean fish fry meets the occasional superstar drop-in
November 20, 2025
Thursday night’s Fish Fry in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, brings the community together with conch stalls, local bands and families filling the square before sunset. The event stays modest, but it sometimes attracts bigger names than you’d expect. On one recent Thursday, Stevie Wonder stepped onto the stage for an unannounced appearance that instantly became the standout moment of an otherwise routine night.
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