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Over the last year we've brought together some of our favourite writers onto our new blog site to muse from some of the more remote corners of the planet. It's quality writing and videos for grown ups designed to inspire and amuse. We hope you enjoy it...

RTW Blog with David Whitley

In his misspent youth, David Whitley spent just under five years in Australia, editing backpacker magazines between drinks. He returned home in 2006, but did so in a spectacularly half-hearted manner. He’s been back around the world three times since then, and his current trip is the fourth different route he has taken. After all, look at all those lovely new countries, sitting there and waiting to be ticked off.

If you ask his dad, David makes a living by being paid to go on holiday. He will angrily deny this, and then sheepishly admit that it’s not too far from the truth – David is a full-time travel writer and his work appears in publications across the globe. Previous adventures on his epic jaunts have included being stranded on a Barrier Reef island after getting on the wrong plane, turning up in a dull country town the day after it had broken the world record for biggest pub crawl and inadvertently snubbing the prime minister of the Cook Islands. 

Now David is off on a Discoverer RTW - see his full RTW ticket here and you can read about his RTW experiences here

Mark Eveleigh blogs his way round the world

In 1992 Mark Eveleigh spent six hours reviewing his life while swinging from the end of a fraying cable in the world's highest cable-car, in Venezuela. The psychological shock of this experience was enough to send him plummeting down the slippery slope into the shadowy world of freelance travel-writing. As a photojournalist he has since contributed to 60 magazines and newspapers on 6 continents. Mark specialises in adventure travel and exploration but has written on conservation and cultural aspects of more than 50 different countries. In 1996 he led the first expedition by foreigners into Central Borneo's 'valley of the spirit world,' collecting material for Fever Trees of Borneo

He grew up in Africa, and returned in 1999 to trek through northern Madagascar with a zebu pack-bull. The full story was told in Maverick in Madagascar. He continues to spend most of each year travelling on assignments in remote parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America but between trips is based in Pamplona, Spain. Hemingway once described Mark's adopted hometown as 'the hell-raising capital of the world' but the man who Maxim called 'a borderline insane modern-day explorer' admits to finding it increasingly difficult to shake off the effects of the world's greatest fiesta.

Mark travelled on a Discoverer RTW - read his full blog here

RTW Videos by Mark Eveleigh