Martin and the Slow Road

I have been travelling in campervans since I was in my late teens and camping since I was a child. At first it was on rainy holidays to Wales with my family but, once I discovered surfing, I started travelling to find waves, sleeping on the font seat of my friend's vans or in the back of my old 2CV with the seats taken out. I graduated to Volkswagens in the early nineties and have owned a small fleet of them since. I now travel in a Fiat Ducato with all mod cons because I spend a lot of time travelling and writing and I feel I have earned a bit of comfort.

In 2011 I was commissioned by BBC2 to appear in a TV show called 'One Man and His Campervan' after my first book, The Camper Van Cook Book came out. 

I started writing Take the Slow Road in 2016 after writing an article for Coast Magazine about travelling slowly up the west coast of Wales called Slow Coasters. After that the philosophy of slow travel came naturally and Take The Slow Road: England and Wales was published in 2017. Around the same time I was running a social media based beach cleaning campaign called #2minutebeachclean which then became a charity The 2 Minute Foundation. That led me to write a number of environmental books including No. More. Plastic. and Kids Fight Plastic, which has been translated into around 20 languages. I was awarded an MBE for my environmental work in 2024.

I live in a small house bear the sea in Cornwall and am married to Lizzy, a love found late in life. She is responsible for navigating and purveying in-flight peck on all my trips. I have two daughters, Maggie and Charlie, both artists and water babies.