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Meet the team

Alan Murphy – Publisher

What has been your most epic journey so far?
Trekking / wading through the Ecuadorean jungle.

Where is your favourite place in the world?
Lake Titicaca, Bolivia.

What couldn't you travel without?
A good book.





Andy Riddle – Managing Director

Have you ever lived abroad?
Three years in Amsterdam.

What has been your most epic journey so far?
Four days drifting down the Nile in a Felucca.

What have been the culinary highlights of your travels?
Fresh oysters in Sydney.


Felicity Laughton – Project Manager, Editorial


Where is your favourite place in the world?

Isle of Barra, Scotland.

Where did you go on your last trip?
Costa de la Luz, Spain.

Where have you been happiest?
Living in Mexico for 18 years.


Patrick Dawson – Commercial Director

Where is your favourite place in the world?
Sennen, Cornwall.

Where did you go on your last trip?
India - the Delhi to Mumbai route.

What have been the culinary highlights of your travels?
Sago grubs, Papua New Guinea and freshly caught sardines grilled on the beach, Santander, Spain.


Jo Williams – Project Manager, Editorial

Where did you go on your last trip?

France & Spain.

Where in the world have you been happiest?
Chiapas, Mexico.

Where is your favourite place in the world?
Lake Atitlán, Guatemala.


Renu Sibal – Advertising Manager

What have been the culinary highlights of your travels?

Having spent a lot of time in India I would have to say you can't beat the street food.

What can't you travel without?
Face cream and coconut oil for my hair, or I end up with an uncontrollable afro!

Have you ever lived abroad?

In India for 1 year whilst doing voluntary work in a school in Gujurat.


Liz Taylor – Office Administrator

Where have you been happiest?

Walking in Glen Clova, the bonniest of the Angus glens in the southern Grampians.

Where is your favourite place in the world?
Stone Town, Zanzibar.

Where did you go on your last trip?
Northern Spain and the Lanquedoc region of France


Liz Harper – Marketing & PR, Digital Editor 


Where are you happiest?
In the mountains - sun or snow ..... oh, and by the sea!

Where are you going on your next trip?
Peru.

Where did you go on your last trip?
Morocco - the Atlas Mountains and Marrakech.


Liz Eyles - Marketing Executive 


Where did you go on your last trip?
China by train, bus and plane - combined with a two week stay in Hong Kong.


Where is your favourite place in the world?
So far...Padstow, Cornwall, but I left part of my heart in Kenya. 


What couldn't you travel without?
Sudocrem and travel insurance - I am prone to injury when out of the country! 



Diane McEntee – Trade Product Manager

What’s your favourite place in the world?
San Diego.


Have you ever lived abroad
In Toronto, Canada for a year after university.


Where did you go on your last trip?
Yuma, Arizona.





Nicola Gibbs - Publishing Manager, Editorial


What has been your most epic journey so far?
Two overland trips: Bristol to Sydney (9 months) and then Bristol to Cape Town (6 months).

What couldn’t you travel without?
A Land Rover.

Have you ever lived abroad?
Yes, in France and Spain as a student, then in Australia for a year.







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