Staff Profile

James's Biog

James didn’t leave Europe until he was 19, first venturing to California for three months and then four months in South America. But it was his first trip to South East Asia, travelling from Hanoi to Bangkok overland, that really captured his imagination. A few years later he embarked on an epic eight-month tour of India which saw him, among other things, working in the holy city of Varanasi and volunteering in a rural development commune in southern Kerala. James has since been back to India, and travelled to Malaysia and Borneo, becoming obsessed with the street food of Penang in the process as well gaining first-hand experience of turtle rehabilitation in the beautiful and secluded surroundings of Selingan Island.  More recently he's been to Bali and Lombok where he particularly enjoyed climbing Mount Rinjani.  

James’s other personal travel highlights include surprising an Adi tribe member by speaking the local lingo in Arunachal Pradesh, India’s least visited state, and being woken by macaques banging on his hotel room door to make sure he didn’t miss the sunrise over India’s third highest mountain, Nanda Devi. He still can't understand how they knew it was his birthday…