Travel, technology, media, politics, rinse, repeat
My latest Italy guidebook was published last week. I covered Florence and half of Rome for Frommer’s EasyGuide to Rome, Florence & Venice 2014. Seeing the book reminded me of a night, last May, when I went to hunt down a restaurant I had wanted to eat in for a while. I fully intended to […]
I get asked to write a fair bit. It’s nice. I’d like to get asked even more often, but the inbox is ticking over, thankfully. I still get a buzz from receiving an email that reads something like: “We’ve seen your stuff, and we like it, and it would be great if you could do […]
It sounds a bit cavalier, I know, but I just turned down a free phone. RRP around £450. The timing was perfect: I’m about to buy a new handset, having got frustrated with my old Nexus One and thoroughly fed up with my iPhone. There were strings, of course. But they didn’t insist I write […]
Despite the nice SEO title, I’m not sure there’s anything especially honest in offering a cure for writer’s block. Being blocked is a natural part of the writing process; it’s ‘organic’, if you like that term. In my experience, it can even preface a flood of creativity. Still, writer’s block is frustrating, and upgrades itself […]
