Cuban Florida for City AM - Award Nomination!
Cubans are part of Tampa’s original fabric. Ybor might have boutique cafes, upscale bars and art galleries, but they are built on a Cuban heritage that’s very different to Miami’s. A journey between the two cities proves that Cuban America is more than just a monoculture, and that Florida’s modern success is built on Cuban innovation.
How to Write: Lessons From a Physicist
Safi believes that writing has three components: style, story and process. He achieves style and story through having a good process, which he breaks down into five “hats”, or forms of behaviour: two in the research and reading phase, and three in the writing phase.
Estonia: A Travel Story Case Study
Estonia was fantastic, with regional variations that belie its small population. People were keen to share their stories of independence and identity, which shaped my understanding of life in the liminal space between East and West.
Tacos, Tequila and Border Walls
I found the topic to be very resonant in San Diego, with its large Mexican population, and which runs right up the (already existing) border wall. I really enjoyed San Diego, and wrote about the city, and the border crossing, for Telegraph Online.
Ladakh: An article in Adventure.com
Leh is buzzing, as locals make the most of the short tourist season. Four-wheel drives zip through town, with boats tied to their roofs for white-water rafting ; the rhythmic tapping of tiny hammers echo from jewellery shops; and Kashmiri merchants, laden with carpets, shift their latest deliveries into freshly-painted shop fronts.
Being Interviewed for World Nomads Podcast: Albania and Reindeer
The World Nomads team wanted to interview me for their podcast, and they asked me about Albania, which I travelled to in search of a British World War Two secret mission.
What is Adventure Writing?
Epic journeys; new horizons; themes of courage and endurance; and connecting with a different reality or culture. Words to live by.
Meet the Volcano: Mt St Helens, Washington (with video).
Like most young boys in the 1980s, I was fascinated by two things: dinosaurs and volcanoes. The vast power of a volcano, spilling forth red lava after a dramatic explosion, inspired excitement and fear.
Lessons in Leadership from General Stanley McChrystal
American General Stanley McChrystal commanded America’s Joint Special Operations Command and ISAF. He was the pre-eminent soldier of his generation and has written three books. Leadership is the theme that runs through all three of them.
Norse Mythology
There are tales reminiscent of the Greek and Roman Gods, of Christianity, of Hinduism. A reminder, perhaps, of their common roots, or they might have evolved multiple times because of man’s need for stories that make sense of the world.
Edgelands: A Telegraph project
That was exactly the response I had hoped for. I was at the offices of the Telegraph newspaper, and I had just shown Ben Ross, the travel editor, and Greg Dickinson, the social content editor, my route along the New Iron Curtain.
Exploring Albania for the Telegraph and BBC
The journey gave me enormous respect for members of the Special Forces and underlined once again the horror of war.
Doing Digital Properly: Top Tips From BBC Worldwide's Alex Ayling
Today, anyone can broadcast through platforms like YouTube. With amateurs producing incredible content, and organisations like Vice creating films specifically for online broadcast, where do traditional broadcasters like the BBC fit in?
