Ian is an award winning travel writer and blogger. His travels took him all around the world but his passion lies in Africa. His blog Encircle Africa tells how he traveled the continent Solo and by public transport. With over 30 countries visited he can truly be considered an expert on all things travel and meeting other cultures.
His writing can be found on websites and magazines including Adventure Travel, Southeast Asia Backpacker, Sidetracked, Environment Journal, The Crazy Tourist and The Island Review. He is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers and Travel Writers UK.
Here I use my expert knowledge of South Africa to highlight the best things to do in Johannesburg. It’s a city which took me some time to love, but look beyond its obvious problems and you’ll find a vibrant forward-facing city packed with attractions just as I did. Johannesburg, Jo’burg, Jozi, eGoli. Call it what …
Over the years, I’ve gathered an impressive collection of South African entry stamps in my passport. Covering this diverse and dramatic country is one of the wonders of my job as a travel writer specializing in Africa. With bucketloads of on the ground experience, I happily share my expertise with you here. Affectionately known as …
Here I use the knowledge I’ve gained over multiple trips to South Africa to highlight the very best things to do in Port Elizabeth. With the experienced eye of a travel writer specializing on the world’s oldest continent, you can be sure my picks are first-hand recommendations of attractions that wowed me. Although now officially …
South Africa is known for its wildlife. However, cities like Pretoria have a wealth of attractions which have kept me enthralled and entertained every time I’ve visited. Who better then to share their thoughts on Pretoria’s best things to do than a confirmed lover of all things South African? Celebrating this incredible country has even …
My travels in South Africa span more than a decade. I’m therefore extremely well placed to highlight all that’s great and good about South African destinations including Durban from the viewpoint of visitors like you. When it comes to location, Durban has it made. Firmly positioned on South Africa’s east coast, this port city developed …
‘The fairest Cape we ever saw’ said a sailor aboard the sixteenth-century ship Golden Hind when seeing Cape Town. Almost 450 years later, I have to agree. It’s a city which promises a lot – and delivers. That’s why as a South Africa expert I have no issue with immediately recommending it. Cape Town has everything. …
The city of Snellville helps form the eastern extremity of the Atlanta metropolitan area, around 40 minutes from downtown Atlanta itself. Located within Gwinnett County, it began life as New London, after the settlement of two native Londoners who crossed the Atlantic from Great Britain. At some point around the 1880s New London became known …
While now the county seat of Baldwin County, Milledgeville Georgia was founded in 1804 as the state’s new capital. It was built on land cleared of its native American population and largely constructed using slave labor. This perhaps explains why it was stripped of its status as state capital in 1868 during the post-civil war …
The Georgia city of Griffin lies south of Atlanta and as such comprises part of the metropolitan Atlanta region. An independent city with its own ambience and charm, Griffin is the county seat of Spalding County. Founded in 1840, Griffin became a boomtown with the coming of the railroad just two years later. Surviving the …
Carrollton is a city in northwest Georgia of around 30,000 people. It lies between the border with Alabama, and Atlanta, Georgia’s state capital. Established in 1829, the city was named after Charles Carroll, the last living signatory to America’s Declaration of Independence. Small enough to have avoided the troubles of the American Civil War a …