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• Babylon revisited, a portrait of old Bangkok, Vanity Fair, November 2014
• Hat-trick in Brazil, Condé Nast Traveller, March 2013
• Transit of Venus: a celestial wonder watched from the shores of the south Pacific, 20 years of travelling the Pacific, Daily Telegraph, 9 June 2012
• Transit of Venus: a view from the South Pacific, 6 June 2012, Daily Telegraph
• Pearls of the Pacific, a journey to the Cook Islands, Condé Nast Traveller, February 2012
• As pretty as the picture, Gauguin as Polynesia’s great realist, Condé Nast Traveller, October 2010
• Small wonder, a journey through Belize, Condé Nast Traveller, November 2009
• Peace and tranquillity in Laos, a memory of the lost idyll of childhood, Oldie, January 2009
• The quiet revolution, Vietnam and Laos 50 years after Norman Lewis’s A Dragon Apparent, Daily Telegraph, 19 May 2007
• A stirring stillness, travel article on Guatemala, Daily Telegraph, 1/07/2006
• The pizzo and the pleasure – Sicily in the footsteps of Norman Lewis, Daily Telegraph, 25/03/2006
• Giant steps, the renaissance of black-market Odessa, Condé Nast Traveller, September 2002
• Notes pour un trimestre (“Quarterly notes”), a diary of a summer in Odessa, L’Atelier du Roman no.29, spring 2002
• Don roaming, on the search for Don Quixote‘s author, Guardian, 15 April 2000
• The seagull’s last cry, a portrait of Chekhov’s last years in Yalta, Guardian, November 1997