About the Author
Simon
Simon Buckby was a BBC and Financial Times journalist, among other things, before running communications consultancies. He has travelled to well over 100 countries.
Reviews by this author:
- Aruba, Bonaire & Curaçao, the Dutch Antilles’ ABCs: A is for awesome beaches, B is for brilliant shore-diving & C is for colonial colour
- Isolated beaches, glitzy hotels and WW2 sites in the Northern Mariana Islands
- “Tacos, guns and strippers” along with spam, beaches and US military bases in oddball Guam, target of North Korea
- Diving and sailing around its Rock Islands, Palau is the ultimate Pacific paradise
- Wreck and reef diving, traditional cultures and ancient ruins in the isolated Federated States of Micronesia
- Isolated beaches and spectacular atolls, including the famous Bikini, compose the tiny Republic of the Marshall Islands
- Magical Micronesia: world class scuba diving and WW2 battlegrounds on tropical paradise islands
- Cuddly lemurs, intrepid hikes and dazzling coastlines; though Madagascar is not as easy as ABD
- Côte d’Ivoire: edgy post-colonial current affairs in stunning coastal locations
- Once the centre of the slave trade, Ghana is now a peaceful democracy with deserted beaches