Mark Porter (born 16 December 1960) is a
Walsall-born
France-based
travel writer and
publisher.
Porter is the author of ''Coast to Coast Cycle Routes'' (), a guide book to three of Britain's most popular cycle routes, all of which travel through the
Lake District
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and
Northern England, now in its 16th edition. He also wrote ''Grand Tour'', a guide to Paris, Rome, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Cardiff for followers of the
Six Nations rugby championships (), and ''Tartan Army Tour Guide to Europe'' () for
Scottish football fans.
A former features editor of the ''
Sunday Express
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'' after a colourful 'career' in
Fleet St, Porter is a freelance contributor to the ''
Daily Mail
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'', ''
Newsweek'', ''
Standpoint'', ''
The Guardian'', ''
The Herald'' of Glasgow, and ''
Cycle
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Anthropology and social sciences
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* Social cycle, various cycles in soc ...
'' he now writes regularly for the French political magazine,
Causeur'. A regular visitor to the Scottish Borders, Porter's travel column appears in the Herald's weekend magazine.
He is also a food writer (ten years as a ''
Contributing Editor'' and ''
Pudding Correspondent'' of ''
Waitrose Food Illustrated'') and has been a restaurant inspector for the
''Good Food Guide'' since 2011. He also runs several cycling websites. Porter spends his time between Scotland and France and has set up VeriTable, a new website designed to select the good restaurants from the bad in France, a nation whose culinary standing is increasingly being questioned.
References
External links
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1960 births
Living people
People from Walsall
British travel writers