My feature writing appeared in The Sunday Times, The Observer, Daily Mail and A La Carte magazine before I concentrated on full-time travel writing. Here are extracts from those writings covering the past thirty years, including my books ‘Talk to me, America’ and my autobiography, ‘Lost in the Reptile House’.

Tee-total Technology – an extract from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’

Somewhere in Europe, 1985


Day One of The Troubles – from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’

Londonderry, August 12th, 1969


A day with Idi Amin – from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’

Kampala, Uganda, July 25, 1975


Birth of a Nation – from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’

Luanda, Angola, February 3rd, 1976


Locking out Mrs. Thatcher – from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’

Chelsea, London, October 10th, 1976


The Boat People – from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’

Kuala Terenggannu, November 27th, 1978


Seeking Aliens with the UFO Watchers -  from ‘The Observer’

Cley Hill, Warminster, July 7th, 1979


Dr. Sheldon Rosenthal does a Facelift in LA – from the ‘Daily Mail’

Los Angeles, February 9th,1981


Tea with Barbara Cartland – from ‘Daily Mail’

Hatfield, Herts, June 18th, 1981


Seeking Patience Strong – from ‘The Sunday Times’

Somewhere in Southern England. December 7th, 1981


Awaiting interview with Our Man in Uganda as President Museveni is sworn in – from ‘Lost in the Reptile House.’

Kampala, January 28th, 1986


Boule at a Nudist Colony – from ‘Daily Mail’

Fareham, Hants, October 17th, 1997


Richard Rawley, Drifter – from ‘ Talk to me, America’

Green River, Utah, February 21st, 2000


The Man Who Boiled His Garden -  from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’

Halifax, Yorkshire. September 1st, 2001


Returning to Drink After Six Years of Abstinence
- from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’

London