* Images by Vicente Schulz It was National Freelancers Day this week. I marked the day with a return trip to my old alma mater, Leeds University, to talk to the media students [pictured above] about going freelance and travel writing as part of the #LeedsMediaFutures series. It was a sparky session, comprising both post- …
* This is the latest post in a weekly series, highlighting stories from my travel-writing archive. Subscribe to the RSS feed for more. It felt like a prodigal return. Stepping off the train at Leeds station, the memories flooded back of filing my first copy in the early nineties for Leeds Student – a gig review of …
I was commissioned recently to write a feature for Leeds, the alumni magazine of my former alma mater. It’s great to keep in touch with the alumni community from Leeds University and good to work on some features outside of travel every now and then. Here’s an extract: Viv Parry has gone from Leeds to …
John Betjeman described it as "the very heart of Leeds".