Inspiring Travel Writing from Rob Penn

Rob Penn gave up a comfortable chair in a solicitor's office for a leather saddle and spent his late twenties riding a bicycle round the world. Twenty-four thousand miles and three years later, the law had lost its appeal and he retrained as a photojournalist. He now writes and photographs for a number of leading London publications including The Times, Condé Nast Traveller, Marie Claire and Geographical.

He specializes in travel writing and photography, but he is also interested in humanitarian issues and works on reportage stories as well as photographing for charities in developing countries. "I travel," he says, "because I love the company of strangers. We can now be so familiar with so much of the world from our armchairs that our real and our imagined experiences of places merge. But through meeting the people wherever we are, our experiences become unique, and the sum of what we are."

Rob lives in London with his partner and their first child.