A Destination Editor on Beldstone's Routes desk, working on inn-to-inn journeys across the British Isles, northern Europe, and parts of Japan. Before joining the Atlas, they spent eight years as a walking guide on the Pembrokeshire and Anglesey coast paths, and contributed essays to a handful of small travel quarterlies that have since folded.
Their writing returns, again and again, to the question of what makes a journey worth taking slowly — the role of weather, of season, of the small unplanned hours between one stop and the next. They have walked most of the routes in the British Isles section of the Atlas at least twice, and a few of them in every season.
They also write the occasional dispatch from the road, usually after the trip is over rather than during it, on the basis that nothing useful gets written in the rain.