Welcome to my homepage. My name's Phil Smith, and I'm a 26-year-old freelance journalist specialising in travel and based in the UK. I have an MA in Online Journalism from Nottingham Trent University, and a growing portfolio of work, some of which you can read below. Click here for my CV

Travel blog

Phil's Big Trip

From getting a stomach infection in India to arriving in Nepal in the aftermath of a military coup, this is the complete story of my three-month trip to Asia, written as it happened. Published by Bootsnall, December 2004 - April 2005

Website

Halsbury Travel

After I helped redesign this travel company's website, for which I wrote and edited almost all the text and sourced and edited many of the images, the proportion of customer enquiries originating from the website rose from 3% to almost 25%. January - December 2004.

Travel stories Meat is a Four-Letter Word Being a non-vegetarian in India is harder than you think. Published by RoadJunky, August 2005 Goal Veracruz! A pen-portrait of one of my favourite places: Mexico's richly atmospheric Gulf Coast port of Veracruz. Published by Bootsnall, October 2004 Belgium's Identity Crisis Exploding the myth that Belgium is boring. Published by Bootsnall, August 2003 A Juicy Bit of Snot Travel writing starts at home: a short journey into Nottingham's past. Published by Bootsnall, July 2002 Review Miles Better? Indian food for people with tastebuds. Published by ItchyNottingham, December 2002