I’m a journalist.

“Are you mad?” We took two three-year-olds on a long-distance bike ride through Normandy – camping, cider country and the Véloscénic, for The Guardian.

Kuoni’s MD ended up on ITV News holding a report that started life as a spreadsheet. How I researched and wrote their 2026 travel trends report – and why rigour is the product.

Somewhere on the South China Sea there was a container with my magazine in it. Making DiWA for Tao Philippines – 12,000 copies of a brand magazine, shipped to Manila, London, New York, Amsterdam and the UAE.

A hundred Igorot women, twenty sacrificed chickens and a witch doctor in yellow flip-flops. I took my baby son to the Philippines' Cordillera mountains to be blessed by his father's clan – my family piece for Condé Nast Traveller.

Everyone on Siargao tells you the same thing: you can never leave. My Citizen Femme piece on the Philippine surf island that gets under your skin – written across a month there with my baby son..

Behind the mall sprawl of the world's most crowded city, a horseshoe of old shoe showrooms turned record shops, camp Italian restaurants and opium-den bars. My Observer piece on Cubao X, the Manila corner gentrification hasn't found.

Six weeks, endless snacks, a paddling pool filled on repeat. I wrote OcadoLife's summer holidays feature and asked four parents – including Louise Boyce and Stu Oakley – how they actually survive the school holidays.

Tbilisi is built on hot springs, and its domed sulphur baths have scrubbed travellers raw for centuries. My guide to the Abanotubani bathhouses for easyJet Traveller – the history, the domes and where to actually book.

Erkan Göker has kept a shop in Istanbul's Grand Bazaar for decades, and there's nothing about the city he doesn't know. On a 24-hour stopover he showed me his Istanbul, for easyJet Traveller's need-to-know guide to Türkiye.

Serious barefoot luxury on an undeveloped stretch of Vietnam's coast – but the best meal of the trip cost about three quid, on red plastic chairs. My review of Zannier Bai San Hô for Citizen Femme.