Freelance journalist

Thanks for visiting my site. I am a professional freelance journalist currently based in Buenos Aires. My latest role has been a six-month project as editor of a new guidebook: Time Out Perfect Places Argentina & Uruguay.

I am a regular contributor to the Guardian newspaper and Guardian.co.uk/travel.

I have worked as acting travel editor of Guardian.co.uk and as acting commissioning editor for their food blog, Word of Mouth. Other work has been published in the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, TNT, Overseas, Time Out, Travel Mail, The Linguist, Matchbox, International Travel and Tourism News, and Siete Leguas (El Mundo, Spain).

I specialise in writing about local life in South America and travel networking, two ideas that I combined in a travel column that was published in the Guardian every Saturday for four months: guardian.co.uk/goinglocal. The aim of the series was to escape the standard gringo trail and meet the locals using travel-networking sites, such as Couchsurfing.com. Since then, I have become a spokesperson for this new mode of travel, speaking at events (TNT Travel Show) and on the radio (BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Five Live, Radio New Zealand). It also inspired my blog: goinglocaltravel.com.

I have also worked as editor of Overseas magazine (an NGO-produced travel and arts magazine), deputy editor of The Linguist (for the Chartered Insitute of Linguists) and travel editor of Matchbox  (West London's lifestyle magazine).

I have subedited for a range of publications, with regular subbing shifts on the Daily Telegraph's business desk and on news, travel and politics at Guardian.co.uk.

My areas of interest include travel, hospitality tourism, online networking, ethical tourism, world affairs and languages.