For as long as I can remember I’ve been bewitched by foreign travel. From my home in New Jersey I would scrutinize the travel section of the New York Times and dream about visiting the exotic locales within. It took a while but eventually I landed in the travel business. My first job in travel was working as a tour leader for Globus Journeys, handling their tours of France. As a recent arrival to the country I had a lot to learn! A bus filled with 40 passengers eager to learn about France motivated me to plunge into the history and culture of my adopted country. I discovered that I very much enjoyed delving deeply into French culture and sharing my knowledge with others.
I brought the same passion for discovery to my work as a guidebook writer. For Frommers, I covered Paris and northern Europe. For Lonely Planet I began covering Croatia and wrote four guidebooks to the country while also covering Greece, Germany and France. Meanwhile I contributed occasional articles to travel publications such as National Geographic Traveler, the San Francisco Chronicle and others.
As the internet emerged as a travel planning resource I decided to publish my work on the web. My first website (still active) was croatiatraveller.com soon followed by frenchrivieratraveller.com and riviera-beaches.com. I still work on all of them!
With the arrival of the Covid pandemic in 2020, international travel ground to a halt. What to do? I remembered that I had written a book of Paris walking tours for Frommers and enjoyed the experience. I began researching my home base in Nice and realized how much there was to learn about my town. And that is how Nice Uncovered: Walks Through the Secret Heart of a Historic City was born.
Now I’m returning to my roots as a tour leader. When not conducting walking tours of Nice, I take visitors on luxury day trips from Nice for contexttravel.com. My clients are delighted, describing my tours as “fantastic” and “fabulous”. It’s incredibly rewarding to share my love of this region with visitors and I feel fortunate to have that opportunity.
