Paul was born in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England, in 1979.
He is one of the book industry’s most hilarious, high-flying, modern-day travel authors, backpacking through an untold cultured world of rat-burgers and snake-venom whiskey.
After unsuccessfully establishing a professional career as a songwriter and a lead guitarist of local rock band, Paul began to focus his occupation towards travel, his second love.
Growing up in a family of keen holidaymakers, Paul decided to take up long-term travel where a backpacking expedition had brought him to Canada in 2001. Here he had travelled the entire country from west to east in just six months. A short while later in 2003, Paul’s next voyage would take him through ten countries, taking a total of 18 months to complete. During his time away from home, he had learnt to tango through three countries in Latin America, swam from one tropical island to the next in the South Pacific, backpacked with eleven-million sheep in New Zealand, circled Australia and Tasmania with Rhonda as his trusted companion (an old beat-up Ford), and he had also trekked through the jungles of Indonesia’s Bali Island and the western peninsula of Malaysia.
It was only on his return back home that Paul began to have itchy feet once again. The travel-bug hadn’t quit suppress his appetite for global exploration. So, Paul had set-sail during a summer break from university, and was joined with his old school friend Nick Sadler for four months of fun and backpacking in Southeast Asia.
However, Paul’s most resent travel from 2009 to 2010, had taken 10 months to complete. Being an enthusiast of all things oriental, Paul had left England –once more- for the Far East where 7 months was spent travelling through the whole of China, Malaysian Borneo, Brunei, Cambodia, and Laos.
To date, Paul has travelled extensively to 43 countries. Since his return home from the Far East in 2010, Paul has chosen to reside in his hometown of Milton Keynes in Southeast England.
