The country, beyond the usual routes.
Not all Nick's stories feature adventure bikes or 4x4's as the heroes. He has also written many general travel stories, incorporating the towns, coastlines, and quiet corners he's explored over twenty years of travel writing, told the way they deserve: unhurried, first-hand, and free of the highlight-reel treatment most travel content settles for.
If Adventure Motorcycling and 4x4 Tracks are about how he got there, then this is about where — and why the destination was worth the journey.
When Doctor R. Morrow, an Irish physician at a Prisoner of War camp in Cape Town, applied for a posting to the Karoo town of Uniondale in 1901 he was assured that the Boer’s posed no danger, and were never likely to. But after only being there for eleven days, a Boer force of 250 […]
I sat overlooking the bustling little harbour. Oilskin-clad men were milling about a ski-boat that had just been pulled out of the water. One of them was haranguing the skipper on some issue while the rest looked on enviously as their peers tossed their silver and red treasure into crates on the quayside. The crew […]