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 and currently splits his time between London and Hong Kong.
Reviews by this author:
- Back to Pyongyang to experience the Mass Games and witness signs of change
- Fiji: the picture-perfect South Pacific paradise
- The reef system and turquoise lagoon it creates, plus astonishing beaches and mountains, make New Caledonia one of the most beautiful places on our planet
- Vanuatu: the world’s most accessible active volcano, a renowned wreck dive, and ancient kastom villages
- Solomon Islands: an untainted Pacific Island culture with wreck dives at World War II battle sites
- The turquoise oceans, blue skies and white beaches of your dreams are in Melanesia
- The roads less travelled in Sri Lanka: the cultural home of the Tamils and the sites of the civil war in the north, plus the quiet golden beaches of the east
- 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