About Me

Hi! I created Trip Anthropologist for travelers like you who want to do more than just be tourists. It’s a site to inspire you about the rich cultures and millennia of history that are just waiting for you to explore when you take your next trip.

Travel, culture, history, food, and archaeology are my passions and if you love these things as well, then you’ve found the right tribe!

I’m a cultural anthropologist and I’ve conducted deep immersive fieldwork in several countries. I speak, read, and write Spanish and three other languages.

In addition to being an expert on the culture of Ancient Greece, I’m also certified by the Italian National Tourist Board as a “Travel to Italy Specialist” (2023).

I have many years of experience traveling around all of the world’s continents except Antarctica (Canada was cold enough!), but I travel for several months every year around the Mediterranean and Europe (because there are unique historical sites here!)

Where I’ve Lived, Worked, and Traveled in Italy, Greece, Spain & Cyprus

🪂 ITALY – including Cinque Terre (Monterosso al Mare, Riomaggiore, Manarola, Vernazza, Corniglia), Liguria (Genoa, Savona, Positano, La Spezia, Levanto), Lombardy (Lake Garda, Lake Como, Milan, Oltrepò Pavese), Dolomites, Venice, Emilia-Romano (Bologna, Ravena, Rimini, Parma, Modena, Ferrara), Tuscany (Florence, Siena, Pienza, San Gimignano, Certaldo, Poggibonsi, Colle di Val d’Elsa, Volterra, Monteriggioni, San Quirico d’Orsia, Montepulciano), Rome, Campania (Naples, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Amalfi Coast – Capri, Sorrento, Positano, Priano, Amalfi, Ravello, Minori, Maiori, Salerno)

🪂 – MAINLAND GREECE – including Northern Greece (including Vergina, Thessaloniki, Pella, Delphi, Meteora) the Peloponnese (including Olympia, Corinth, Mycenae, Tiryns, Nafplio, Epidaurus), Attica (including Athens, Eleusis/Elefsina, Rafina, Greek Riviera)

🪂 – GREEK ISLANDS – including Aegina, Hydra, Spetses, Skopelos, Tinos, Mykonos, Milos, Paros, Antiparos, Naxos, Andros, Folegandros, Amorgos, Sifnos, Delos, Santorini, Anafi, Ios, Small Cyclades, Despotika, Crete, Spinalonga, Rhodes, Kos, Samos, Kastellorizo, Samothraki, Thasos, Corfu, Paxos/Paxoi, Ithaca, Zakynthos

🪂 – CYPRUS – including Paphos, Larnaca, Limassol, Ayia Napa, Nicosia/Lefkada, Coral Bay, Chloraka, Akamas, Polis, Latchi, Pomos, Choirokoitia, Kourion, Galata/Agios Sozomenos, Kathikies, Troodos Mountains

🪂 – SPAIN – including Barcelona, Madrid, Italica, Cordoba, Valencia, Granada, Malaga, Seville, Cadiz, Segovia, Toledo, Marbella, Nerja, Zaragoza, Pamplona, Burgos, Leon, Camino de Santiago, and lots of small towns in between!

Awards, Books & Media

I’ve won awards for my writing and I’ve been featured on some of the world’s biggest travel and news sites including Newsweek, Time, CNN, BBC, ABC, PBS, and Green Global Travel.
You can read more about me on Wikipedia and some of my books and media commentaries are below.

You can read about my latest travel articles here, listen to my podcasts, or sign up for my monthly newsletter and never miss a Trip Anthropologist article about your favorite places!

My Books on Myanmar

TV Appearances

The most prolific associate of Trip Anthropologist is Leo McPartland. Leo is a Londoner who went to Barcelona in 2009 on a whim and never made it back!

When he’s not writing about his favorite places for Trip Anthropologist, Leo is teaching at various Catalan universities, playing guitar, and taking his dog for walks.

We haven’t found anything in Spain that he doesn’t like to eat and we love his ever-so-slightly offbeat way of looking at the world.

For instance, when we talked about writing an article on the best streets to walk in Barcelona, he told readers to spend their time looking up! And it’s true – Barcelona’s balconies and windows make the city unique just as much as Gaudi’s masterpieces do.

We decided not to list all the places he’s been to, because he loves traveling in Spain, and especially to San Sebastian and across the north.