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.
Located within middle Georgia striking distance of the state border with Alabama, Americus, Georgia is the seat of Sumter County. While having a population of less than 20,000 residents, the city is known for its rich history and fine antebellum and Victorian architecture. Called the ‘metropolis of Southwest Georgia’, this small city boasts a series …
The city of Tifton is located in south central Georgia. It lies in an area that has historically been key to the region’s agricultural successes. The county seat for Tift County, Tifton was founded in 1872 by sawmill owner Henry H Tift. Incorporated as a city eight years later, it has now been the county …
While its name might not be a household one – yet anyway – Statesboro is the biggest city and the county seat of Georgia’s Bulloch county. Situated in the state’s southeast roughly 100 kilometres from the Atlantic seaboard, it was chartered as a city in 1803. Founded as a trading community serving the surrounding cotton …
The Georgia city of Stockbridge lies in Henry County, roughly half an hour southeast of Atlanta, the state capital. Settled from 1829 onwards, Stockbridge officially became a town in 1895, but wasn’t incorporated into a city until 1920. Now one hundred years young, the city of Stockbridge is well thought of by many in nearby …
The city of McDonough, Georgia is situated approximately 30 minutes south of Atlanta, the state capital. It has a permanent population of less than 9,000 people, but is none the less the county seat of Georgia’s Henry County. McDonough was founded in 1823 around a traditional town square setting as European-Americans slowly moved westward across …
Woodstock is a city in Georgia’s Cherokee County, a short distance north of Atlanta. It’s close enough to be a popular place for city workers to live. In fact, it’s one of the fastest growing suburbs in the United States, and there’s good reason. Woodstock was incorporated in 1897, and is believed to have taken …
Canton, Georgia is a city and the county seat of Cherokee County in the northern half of the state. Named after Canton (now Guangzhou) in China, it has a population of around 22,000 people, and lies 65 km north of Atlanta. The city is situated on traditional Cherokee Indian territory, with the tribe forcibly marched …
While often described as one of Atlanta’s northern suburbs, at 35 kilometres away Duluth, Georgia has an atmosphere all of its own. In fact, it’s recognised as being a city with a small-town ambience within easy reach of big city attractions. Duluth was established in the early nineteenth century as Howell’s Crossing, not becoming Duluth …
The city of Dalton is the county seat of Whitfield County in the far north of Georgia, on the state’s border with Tennessee. Like many cities in the southeast of the United States, Dalton developed around a rail depot in the first half of the eighteenth century. This followed the forced removal of the Cherokee …
Part of Cobb County Georgia, Acworth sits on the outer extremity of a finger of urbanization that stretches northwest from Atlanta. It lines the shores of two lakes, Allatoona and Acworth, in the foothills of the North Georgia Mountains. Sometimes known as ‘the lake city’, Acworth Georgia is in many ways a typical southern city. …