Tom Chesshyre is the author of fourteen travel books, and counting. He worked on the Times for 21 years and is now a freelance writer. He attended state school, studied politics at Bristol and newspaper journalism at City University and has worked for Sporting Life, the Independent, Sky Sports, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Daily Mail and National Geographic. He can be found on X as @tchesshyre and at tomchesshyre.co.uk