A funny way of looking at the world

A Life In Travel The official website for travel author, Peter Moore

Author, traveller, Vespista: I’ve been wandering the world since a life-altering encounter with the Big Nambas of Vanuatu, age 19. Some things never leave you.

I’ve travelled overland from London to Sydney and made my way from Cape Town to Cairo by any means possible. I bought an old Vespa and rode it around Italy, twice.

In the process I’ve visited 102 countries, written six books and learned that the world may be a crazy place but default setting of human kind is ‘Good.’

Welcome to my website.

Latest News

For all the latest about my travels and my books, as well as the odd random rant or funny picture, check out the blog below.
Or if you want to get really sociable, you can follow me on Twitter or Facebook or check out my photos on Flickr.

Books

Vroom by the Sea
Vroom with a View
The Full Montezuma
Swahili for the Broken-Hearted
The Wrong Way Home
No Shitting in the Toilet

Events

The Word
A Day for Writers in Lancashire
September 21, 2013
Astley Hall, Chorley
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Fishing on Father’s Day

It was Father’s Day in the UK yesterday so I took my daughter fishing. Not just for a bit of quality father/daughter time. I figured it was about time she experienced the thrill of hooking a fish and landing it. Sadly, it didn’t quite work out that way. We popped down to Henfold Lakes, just [...]

The new manager at Menaggio is a Vespista

Those of you who have read Vroom with a View may remember that I spent a little time at the youth hostel overlooking Lake Como at Menaggio. It was early on in my trip and Sophie had been playing up. Gianni kindly took her away to get fixed and I got to spend a week [...]

Kosovo on a budget

The article I wrote for Wanderlust about my trip around Kosovo is finally online. It originally appeared in Issue 128, with a bunch of other stories about trips done on a strict budget of £250. I had a brilliant trip – hanging out with Prishtina’s artistic community, chatting with Serb ‘rebels’ and drinking way too [...]

Meeting your heroes

The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux

I’ve got my hot little hands on an advance copy of Paul Theroux’s new travelogue, The Last Train To Zona Verde. It’s about his most recent trip in Africa, an overland journey from Cape Town to Angola. I’m reviewing it for Wanderlust and, fingers crossed, it looks like I might get to interview him when [...]

The 100-year-old man who brightened my commute

Since I wrote off my new Vespa last September I’ve had to catch the train over to Windsor on the days I help out at Wanderlust. It takes twice as long and costs three times as much, but until the whole insurance/liability thing is sorted out, I don’t really have much choice. The upside is [...]

Shetland by sea … sickness

You’ve got to watch this video. It’s CCTV footage from the ferry that sails from the Shetlands to mainland UK and it is wild! I travelled to the Shetlands a few years ago. I flew up but caught the same ferry back from Lerwick to Aberdeen. Thankfully, it was a smoother sailing. But I was [...]

My Year in Travel 2012

I had a pretty quiet year in travel in 2012. But the beauty of living somewhere like London is that, even in a quiet year, you can pop over to somewhere exotic and not spend that much money doing it. With that in mind, here’s what I got up to in 2012: Belgian Beach Holiday [...]

Trainspotted!

My first book, No Shitting in the Toilet, was published in 1998. In the intervening years, nay, decades, I have never seen anyone reading one of my books. I know people are buying them. I get a royalty cheque from my publishers every six months. (Unless Random House have become some bizarre philanthropic organisation, sending [...]

My Albums of 2012

It’s that time of the year again, when every newspaper, magazine and website start listing their favourite albums/books/films of 2012. Who am I to buck a trend? Four out of five are from Swedish artists. I am nothing if not predictable. 1. Lion’s Roar – First Aid Kit I saw these guys support Jack White [...]

Fully Sikh!

The annual Mr Singh International Turban Pride pageant was held in Amritsar on Sunday. And judging by the pictures that ran with The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph articles, it looked like a real hoot. Indeed, I’m busy making room in my schedule so I can go along to the 2013 pageant. The pageant was launched [...]