Our experts are professional writers, photographers and journalists who will be contributing regularly to our blog, sharing the depth of their knowledge about the wide world of travel. Read all about them here.
Ben Groundwater
Ben Groundwater is a Sydney-based travel writer, blogger, and eater of strange food he should know better about. He’s been to 70-something countries over 10 years as a professional writer, but still frequently gets lost. Ben is the author of the travel narrative Five Ways to Carry a Goat, as well as being a weekly columnist for Australia’s Sun-Herald newspaper. Ben’s favourite country is Spain, his favourite food is pasta, and his favourite travel story is the one about the time a cobra almost bit him in Thailand. Read more at bengroundwater.com.
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Amar Grover
Amar Grover is a London-based writer and photographer. He has travelled through much of the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, China and Australia, yet it’s the Indian subcontinent – from Chitral to Assam and Ladakh to Tamil Nadu - that repeatedly lures him back more than anywhere else. He likes hiking and is obsessed by Indian forts. www.pictographical.co.uk
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Doug McKinlay
Doug McKinlay is a London-based documentary, travel and reportage photographer and feature writer. His work appears in The Times, The Guardian/Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, De Volkskraant, The FT, CNN Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Wanderlust, Marie Claire, High Life, Geographical Magazine and many Lonely Planet publications. His images are also represented by Axiom Photographic, Lonely Planet Images, Getty Images and Britain On View picture agencies. (www.dougmckinlay.com)
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Matthew Teller
Matthew Teller is a freelance journalist and travel writer, specialising in the Middle East.
He’s always been a writer: travel came later. His first big adventure was a family holiday to Jerusalem aged 11 – even today, the smell of cumin takes him straight back there. That was when he saw the desert for the first time.
Since then, he’s lived and worked around the Middle East, had dinner with the Queen, been thrown off a train on the Polish-German border for having no shoes, lived in a self-built shack on the beach at Tel Aviv, sampled warm milk fresh from the camel in Saudi Arabia, driven across the US, hitch-hiked from Morocco to Paris in 22 hours straight, been blessed while sitting on a holy shaking wall in the Punjab and had many other adventures of the kind travel writers always boast about.
He lives in the UK and tries to keep his website matthewteller.com and his blog quitealone.com reasonably up to date.
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Wendy Gomersall
Wendy Gomersall is a Hertfordshire-based journalist specialising in travel. She has travelled all over the world, has an interest in archaeology and ancient cultures, but also loves anywhere with wildlife to track, photograph, or cuddle ideally. Not surprisingly, she’s very fond of southern Africa, India, Australia and New Zealand, but also particularly adores Egypt, which she visits on a regular basis, and Jordan.
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Hi, i was thinking of doing the new king ramses tour, but just wondered, where would our suitcases go on during the felucca trip?
Hi Emma,
Thanks for the comment. The feluccas have a fairly large below-deck stowage area for suitcases and other luggage. It’s a good idea to have a second, smaller bag though; something you can use to store things that you need regular access to. Let us know if you have any more questions, and have a great time!