Hello!

It's been a while. Let me explain...

Hi and welcome to my first-ever post on Substack.

The eagle-eyed may have spotted that this page is actually more than five years old. I’ll explain. Back in those bleak, dark depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, everyone I knew appeared to be jumping on the newsletter bandwagon, when Substack was just that.

With a little more time on my hands than usual, I thought I could too.

But various reasons put me off from hitting send.

What would I write about? I have plenty of interests: Spain, microadventures, swimming, street art, Banksy, hiking, photography, AI… the list goes on. But should I do a general overview of sharing articles about things I enjoy or should I niche down? How would it actually add any value to anyone’s lives? And was it just a shiny object that I’d dump a few weeks later after an initial burst of enthusiasm?

The years rolled on by, and finally I’ve decided how best to approach this platform (seeing as how other social media now appears to be completely cooked).

As I already write plenty for my day job as European correspondent for HuffPost U.S., the plan for the time being at least is to link to my work stories, past and present, maybe with a little update here and there, and to gradually upload my photo archive (including the one above) and see what happens.

Let me know how I get on!