My name is Neville Walker and I’m a freelance travel writer, with a string of guidebooks, newspaper and magazine articles to my credit and an unreasonably detailed knowledge of the autoroutes and autobahns of western Europe.
I specialise in European travel, with occasional forays further afield. I divide my time between homes in London – where I live on the fringes of groovy Dalston – and Salzburger Land in Austria, where there’s a shortage of hipsters but the skiing is better.
In this blog I want to make a virtue of going off-piste. The destinations I will highlight are not the most fashionable, the most obvious or the most heavily-promoted, and if I feature a better-known place it will be in an offbeat, unfamiliar way.
If you want to sound off about the blog do it here, or feel free to tweet – I’m TravelNeville on Twitter. You can send the lucrative work offers to rnevillewalker@googlemail.com
Travel Neville 
Very nice, Mr. Walker. I came across your Sanary piece just now. Having read most of Sybille Bedford, and currently reading Toibin’s “The Magician”, I realized Sybille and Thomas must have been in Sanary at the same time. Your comments about Sanary have added to my interest to visit there. I was afraid it may have become glitzy and over-touristed, but maybe not. I recently expatriated myself from San Francisco to Italy…. after nearly 40 years of extended trips here. One of these days I’ll go visit Sanary!
Cheers, I’ll enlist for updates!
Jeannie K
I think you might be pleasantly surprised by Sanary. It is still pretty low-key and charming compared with places like St Tropez where the sheer weight of tourist numbers (and the rip-off prices) have somewhat spoiled the original appeal.
Beste Neville,
Wat een prachtig relaas over ons schip. Het maakt ons als vrijwilliger op het schip nog trotser dan we al zijn op het ss Rotterdam V.
Dank
Ryan Derks -shiphost