Since venturing cautiously from his native North-East England, Gareth has worked in publishing across the Middle East, Asia and Europe. After editing Time Out magazines in Beijing and Abu Dhabi, he returned to the UK, via Brussels, Kalamata and Ljubljana, to work for Wanderlust and continues to write guidebooks to everywhere from Luxembourg, China and Malta to Greece and his one true love, Belgium, where he can frequently be found hammering down a mitraillette in the grounds of Parc du Cinquantenaire.