Steve Biggs
I try to only write about ‘unique experiences’. Ones that nobody has written about before, or better still experiences that nobody has ever had before!
It all started out when I won a private jet for myself and 49 friends to Stockholm and I thought, you know what, I might write a blog post about that. Then there was running the New York City marathon with a supermodel – Christy Turlington – whose charity, Every Mother Counts, I’m now the UK running ambassador for. These stories are also written by a 41-year-old man with a mortgage and a full-time job and not by a fresh-faced 23-year-old backpacker.
I’m currently living just north of London in a pretty little market town called Hitchin and work out of Central London for an international travel company. When not blogging or working I like to run the odd marathon (5 and counting) and ride around on either my Brompton fold-up bike, road bike or mountain bike.
You can work pretty much where you want to – on the road, do you find it hard to work or do you just have fun and work when you come back home?
Yes - take the right pics, and make the right notes but I do all the editing, writing and everything else that goes with travel blogging when I get home.
Do you feel many people are envious of your lifestyle?
Then again I might be envious of the school/uni friend on their sole holiday of the year camping in a wet and windy Wales but together with their lovely family, which I haven't quite got to yet.
In which countries have people recognised you, even when you thought nobody would?
Which three items would you never travel without?
So, let me have the iPhone and its chargers as one item and then I'd add to that my little blue travel wallet embroidered with my initials SB that my mum bought for me over 10 years ago, plus a trucker's cap bought for me even longer ago by my best pal Dan. Perfect for keeping the sun off front or back and covering up bad hair days!
Are there any specific souvenirs or other things you collect from the places you go to?
The only rule I have is that I only buy magnets from abroad and try to go for nice ceramic ones if I can. My travel companions generally get bored of this as I can never buy a magnet from the first souvenir shop I go in to. I have to visit at least five shops and then invariably go back to buy the first one I saw.