I grew up on a small island in the Seychelles called Bird Island, which was home to a handful of people and several million nesting seabirds. Just about every adult I knew had a pair of binoculars within reach, and a decent chunk of my childhood was spent having the finer points of noddies and […]
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Road Trip Essentials: What to Pack for a US Road Trip (And What to Skip)
I spent years as a visiting driver in the USA on my UK licence before I moved here, became a resident, and passed a state driving test. So I’ve packed for a US road trip from both sides of the rental counter, and I can tell you the packing list looks different depending on which […]
How to Read a Histogram in Photography (And What to Change When You Do)
I’ve been taking photos professionally for over thirty years, and for as long as my cameras have had a histogram, it’s been the one camera readout I check on almost every shoot. It has saved more of my photos than any other feature on any camera I’ve owned, and it’s also, by some distance, the […]
The Best Travel Tripods in 2026: A Photographer’s Buying Guide
I’ve been a professional travel photographer since 2010, and I’ve owned around eight travel tripods over the years, which is enough to know what matters and what doesn’t. I don’t buy or ask for new ones just to have them. I bring one in to test when a design does something new, the way Peak […]
The Best Camera Straps in 2026: A Travel Photographer’s Picks
The best camera strap for most photographers is the Peak Design Slide. I’ve been a professional travel photographer since 2010, I bought my first Slide back in 2015, and I haven’t used another strap system on my main cameras since. Of course, the Slide isn’t the right strap for everyone. The strap that suits an […]
2 Days in Naples, Italy: Is It Worth It? (Full Itinerary)
I’ve been travelling to Italy for over thirty years, and for most of them I treated Naples as a place you pass through rather than stay. The station, the port, a quick espresso, and onwards to somewhere tidier. Then Jess and I gave the city four nights, ate our way down Via dei Tribunali, climbed […]
The Best Packing Cubes for Travel: Our 2026 Picks and Buying Guide
We’ve been travelling and writing about it full time since 2010, and for the past four years most of our clothes have crossed borders inside a set of cheap Amazon packing cubes we bought when we were living in the UK. Jess, meanwhile, has been packing with the same Eagle Creek cubes for over twelve […]
The Best Hotels Near London Airports (And the One to Book at Each)
I lived in central London for over two years, and I’ve flown in and out of all six of its airports more times than I can count. In that time I’ve tried the 4am taxi across the city, the first train that arrives twenty minutes after bag drop opens, and the night spent airport-side at […]
The Best Travel Power Banks for 2026 (and Which Ones Are Actually Airline-Legal)
I’ve been buying, and wearing out, travel power banks since 2016. These days the one that lives in my camera bag is an INIU P63, a 25,000mAh brick I chose partly because it sits right around the airline carry-on limit, so I never have to think twice at security. Before that I carried an older […]
Amalfi Coast Itinerary: How Many Days You Need and Where to Base
I’ve been visiting the Amalfi Coast since 1995, most recently in 2023, when Jess and I based ourselves in Sorrento for the best part of a week and explored the coast from there. We’ve also done it the other way, cramming the whole coastline into a single day trip from Naples. I’ll save you the […]