Top 10 historic hotels
Exploring beautiful buildings with fascinating history
Journalism
I’ve written articles for The National, The Wire, Ultra Travel, The Guardian, Time Out and Profile magazine on subjects as diverse as mirror neurons, Martin Parr, parenting, Syrian monasteries and silent disco
Selected articles
Machines and memory
Designing digital products that remember to forget
Top 10 music festivals
Not just a list of muddy fields
Behind closed doors
Open as a model for social change
Top 10 20th-century hotels
Icons of 20th-century architecture and design
Technology's wreckers and breakers
Questioning new technology is not necessarily opposing progress
The guidebook: records of change
Snapshots of places survive in old editions
Top 10 street food
On street food around the world
Top 10 lesser-known art galleries
On museums which create a spectatorial experience
The A to Z of travel technology
How technology is changing the way we travel in the 21st century
My kind of place: Edinburgh
The best of the summer arts festivals in Scotland's capital
Top 10 rail journeys
Trains counter the disorientation of air travel
Travel Essentials
A fortnightly travel gadget column (2009–2011)
iPhone apps and travel
How are apps and smartphones affecting our travel experiences?
Top 10 best ruins
On ruins around the world
Dad Matters
A weekly column about parenting (2009–2011)
Martin Parr
Interview about his latest book on the indulgences of the super-rich
Antony Gormley
Remarkable metal sculptures in Western Australia's desert
The Mani, Greece
On travelling through the land of The Iliad and The Odyssey
Yemen
On music in Yemen
Deir Mar Musa, Syria
How a monastery in the Syrian desert became a centre for dialogue among religions and cultures
Silent disco
Forget booming sound systems and deafening drum and bass, silent discos are the future
Mirror neurons
On the relationship between what we see and what we do
Peter Sanders
Interview with the photographer about The Art of Integration
We are all mutations
On the benefits of mutations
A walker in the city
On walking as orientation
The lure of the open road
On the car crash in popular culture
Translatio imperii
On the medieval theory of the movement of empire