Tom Chesshyre is the author of fourteen travel books, and counting. He worked on the Times for 21 years and is now a freelance writer. He attended state school, studied politics at Bristol and newspaper journalism at City University and has worked for Sporting Life , the Independent , Sky Sports, the Daily Telegraph , the Guardian , the Daily Mail and National Geographic . He can be found on X as @tchesshyre and at tomchesshyre.co.uk.