"Short stories and travel reports from my life adventures around the globe".
The Waterloo Monument, Scotland. January 2016. There are some hidden gems scattered around The Scottish Borders for anyone willing to do a bit of research. I’d lost count of the number of times my dad and I had spied The Waterloo Monument from the car window. At 150 feet high and perched atop Peniel Heugh […]
Read MoreBowmont Forest, Scotland. I’ve racked up quite the collection of Scottish forests over the years. Whenever I return to The Scottish Borders to catch up with my mum and dad, the main item on the agenda is invariably dog-walking. Back when my parents lived near the market town of Kelso, Bowmont Forest was the prime location […]
Read MoreOnce Upon a Time in Orkney. October 2000. In late 2000 I found myself in the oh so familiar state of between jobs in the isolated Scottish outpost of Fort William. I was cold, fed up and bored. Consequently, it was something of a relief when my old friend David got in touch to say he was […]
Read MoreMemories of Sweethope in The Scottish Borders. 2003-2015. The tiny hamlet of Sweethope lies deep in the heart of The Scottish Borders, about a twelve minute drive from the market town of Kelso. I moved here in 2003 with my mum, dad, brother Cory and Inde the dog. I remember being less than excited about […]
Read MoreOnce Upon a Time in Doha. June 2001-June 2002. I arrived in Doha in the summer of 2001 without a clue as to what I would actually do there. My entire family had relocated to the Qatari capital for my father’s job. I’m talking mum, dad, sister, brother, dog… the works. I was at one […]
Read MoreAuschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. April 2003. Many moons ago a bunch of friends and I jumped on a train in Bratislava. Our subsequent journey took us east through the centre of Slovakia and then north along The Tatra Mountains into Poland. Our destination was the city of Krakow, where we’d planned three nights of carefree […]
Read MoreSnippets of Krakow April 2003. It’s almost painful to realise that it’s been over sixteen years since my one and only trip to Poland! I was teaching English in Slovakia at the time, so a bunch of friends and I took the train to Krakow from Bratislava. Having checked into our hostel, we subsequently wasted no […]
Read MoreAfter nearly five years as Leighton Literature, the time has finally come to relaunch this little blog of mine in order to better reflect what it is I actually do.
Read MoreToday I published my 500th travel report with my article on Tooting Bec Common in London. This is cause for celebration because a) five hundred is a sexy number and b) I never thought I’d get this far! Now I kinda like the sound of 1000. These articles of mine have evolved over time from simple […]
Read MoreIt’s Leighton Literature’s 4th Birthday! It’s been four years since I launched Leighton Literature and this last twelve months have definitely been my most transformative. It was over the summer that I felt like LL had arrived at a sink or swim moment. After so much hard work and only modest progress, I saw two […]
Read MoreIt’s Leighton Literature’s 3rd Birthday! One of the scariest things about getting older is the ever-increasing rapidity of the passing of time. I mean, how can it possibly be three years since I launched Leighton Literature? I was in Beijing at the time, my second stint. Between now and then I’ve been to South Korea, Singapore and […]
Read MoreIt’s Leighton Literature’s 2nd Birthday!!! It’s been two years since I launched Leighton Literature one smoggy Beijing morning. Back then I was blessed with an abundance of free time, access to an amazing American-style diner and that incomparable enthusiasm one has towards a new and exciting project. My goals were simple: to share my experiences of a life […]
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Traveling the world, one country at a time.
