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A collection of stories that takes you around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Between 1991 and 2016, I travelled around the world, living in new places, writing, DJing, working, learning the local culture, meeting nice people, sharing stories with strangers, all-night gatherings, ending up in someone\u2019s kitchen at 5am drinking vodka and eating cheese, chasing choo choo trains and waiting for buses at dawn.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cit\u2019s better to travel\u201d is\u00a0a collection of stories about writing and DJing around the world as a diplomat. From working in an embassy to working behind the decks; from writing and researching a series of record shop guides to writing and researching for a radio interview as the Deputy Ambassador in Mongolia. The book is a series of 13 interconnecting travel stories through the lens of locals and written in the first-person in the present tense. You will be immersed in tales from 13 different cities linking a squat party in Hanoi to a\u00a0graffiti\u00a0artist in New York to a lock-in Paris.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is shaped by writing and DJing around the world and looking for the creative space. And I found some wonderful spots to write around the world with stories to match!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About myself, I have been writing since the early nineties primarily as a music journalist, having started a fanzine \u2018Left on the Jazz Side\u2019 in 1991. I worked for Blues and Soul magazine between 1996-2001 including writing the monthly jazz column between 1999-2001. My work has also appeared in Shook magazine and online for BBC Music and Fly Global amongst others. In 2005 I set up The Secret List <\/a>series of record shop guides and travelogues, one of the first to cast a light on both buying records and record shops. I published the first edition to Los Angeles (2013), Paris (2014) and London (2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I hope you enjoy \u201cit\u2019s better to travel\u201d and it is suitable inspiration to seek out the new and the different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Between 1991 and 2016, I travelled around the world, living in new places, writing, DJing, working, learning the local culture, meeting nice people, sharing stories with strangers, all-night gatherings, ending up in someone\u2019s kitchen at 5am drinking vodka and eating cheese, chasing choo choo trains and waiting for buses at dawn. \u201cit\u2019s better to travel\u201d … <\/p>\n

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