Born and raised in the UK, Barry Barford has been writing about travel for more than three decades and had articles published by Business Traveller, Media East, The Asian Business Review and Go World Travel among others. His self-published book, Ten Top Travel Destinations, is available from Amazon. He is now a full-time freelance writer and travel industry reporter. He lives in Australia, near Sydney.

I am a Roving France Reporter: a Travel Writer and Travel Advisor, regular blogger on all things French from destinations off the very beaten track to slices of daily life. Published in France Today and Bonjour Paris, I pitch and write feature articles on people, places and events from my humble stone home in the fields of Normandy, near the Abbey of Mont St Michel.

Ashley Gibbins is Managing Director of the International Travel Writers Alliance and Commissioning Editor of AllWays Traveller. A third generation journalist he is a travel writer and photographer with a particular interest in events, celebrations and live performances.

Michael C. Upton works as a freelance writer specializing in arts and leisure, which includes travel writing. He graduated with a B.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Maine at Farmington and is actively published by trade journals, specialized websites, and regional and national magazines. Upton lives in Southeastern Pennsylvania, USA—in the heart of Amish Country—with his wife Mel and two youngest children Halligan and Teagan. Chef Tyler, his oldest son, is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America.