I'm a 37-year-old travel author and journalist from Yorkshire, now living in Bristol.  I love to travel and am as passionate about our lovely country, the outdoors, walking and cycling as I am about writing, so combining them all into one blissful job is a dream.  

I have authored the official guidebook to 150 of the UK's best traffic-free cycle rides, which will be published by Sustrans in March 2015 to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the National Cycle Network.

Some of the great British long-distance cycle rides that I've ridden and written about for newspapers and magazines include the 250-mile Lon Las Cymru from Holyhead to Chepstow, the 170-mile Way of the Roses across Lancashire and Yorkshire, the 100-mile Norfolk Coast Cycleway and the 130-mile Yorkshire Dales Cycleway. 

More regularly, you might find me pootling along the railway path from Bristol to Bath clasping a Marshfield ice cream, or riding through Ashton Court Estate and over the mighty Clifton Suspension Bridge. It never fails to make me smile.