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:
- 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
- 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