Mark Porter (writer)

Mark Porter
Mark Porter (b. 16 December 1960) is a Walsall-born, French based author and publisher.
Mark Porter (b. 16 December 1960) is a Walsall-born, French based author and publisher.
Born (1960-12-16) 16 December 1960 (age 63)
Walsall, England
Website
www.cycle-guides.co.uk

Mark Porter (born 16 December 1960) is a Walsall-born France-based travel writer and publisher.

Porter is the author of Coast to Coast Cycle Routes (ISBN 9780955508264), a guide book to three of Britain's most popular cycle routes, all of which travel through the Lake District and Northern England, now in its 16th edition. He also wrote Grand Tour, a guide to Paris, Rome, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Cardiff for followers of the Six Nations rugby championships (ISBN 9780954482763), and Tartan Army Tour Guide to Europe (ISBN 0954482778) for Scottish football fans.

A former features editor of the Sunday Express after a colourful 'career' in Fleet St, Porter is a freelance contributor to the Daily Mail, Newsweek,[1][2][3][4] Standpoint,[5] The Guardian,[6][7] The Herald of Glasgow,[8][9][10][11] and Cycle[12] he now writes regularly for the French political magazine, Causeur. A regular visitor to the Scottish Borders, Porter's travel column appears in the Herald's weekend magazine.

He is also a food writer (ten years as a Contributing Editor and Pudding Correspondent of Waitrose Food Illustrated) and has been a restaurant inspector for the Good Food Guide since 2011. He also runs several cycling websites. Porter spends his time between Scotland and France and has set up VeriTable,[13] a new website designed to select the good restaurants from the bad in France, a nation whose culinary standing is increasingly being questioned.

  1. ^ French Cheesmakers Crippled by EU Health Measures Newsweek 26 August 2014
  2. ^ 'Torture in a Can': French Foie Gras Farmers Failing to Improve Appalling Conditions Newsweek 17 October 2014
  3. ^ Northern Ireland's Financial Crisis Sparks Fears of Violence Newsweek 14 November 2014
  4. ^ Erdogan Draws Veil Over Genocide Claims With Gallipoli Commemoration Newsweek 24 April 2015
  5. ^ The Fifth Republic's Darkest Days? Standpoint Magazine January 2015
  6. ^ Cycling Brittany: Roscoff, Devon, Cornwall The Guardian 22 July 2011
  7. ^ Scotland's best classical music festivals The Guardian 25 May 2012
  8. ^ Travel in the finest company The Herald (Glasgow) 23 May 2014
  9. ^ Titanium is hard to fault The Herald (Glasgow) 25 July 2014
  10. ^ Electric dream: Battery power makes light of a stunning stretch of the C2C coast-to-coast cycle route The Herald (Glasgow) 17 March 2015
  11. ^ Scale new heights in good taste The Herald (Glasgow) 15 January 2016
  12. ^ Channel Hopping Cycle Magazine August 2013
  13. ^ VeriTable Archived 25 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine