Writer and photographer, Simon Richmond honed his skills as a
young journalist with the UK consumer magazine Which? before
heading east to Tokyo in 1991. He spent two and a half years in
Japan learning the language and working as an editor and writer for
a major financial news organization on content that was drier than
the Gobi, and only marginally more interesting. At the same time he
travelled Japan, Asia and Australia, scribbling notes and writing
travel features. All this paid off when he was hired by Rough
Guides for his first gig updating peninsular Malaysia on their
Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei book. Next came work on the first
editions of Japan and Tokyo.
In 2000, the Rough Guide to Japan won the Travellex Travel
Guidebook of the Year award. Since then Simon has written four more
editions of the Japan guides the most recent published in Feb/March
2011. He's also written guidebooks to a host of other countries
(Russia, South Africa, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Australia, India,
Kazakhstan, Turkey and Iran) and cities (Cape Town, Sydney, Lisbon,
Brussels and Antwerp), for all the major publishers including
Lonely Planet, Time Out, Frommer's and Thames & Hudson.
In particular he's done a lot of adventure travel writing (a series
of four books for the AA Adventure Travellers series on Australia,
India, South America and Southeast Asia) and writing about food
including contributions to restaurant guides to Sydney and London,
including Time Out's annual London restaurant guide.
His travel features have been published in newspapers and magazines
around the world, including in the UK's Independent, Guardian,
Times, Daily Telegraph and Royal Geographical Society Magazine; and
Australia's Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Australian
Financial Review Magazine and Vogue Entertaining and Travel. He's
also presented a travel documentary on Japan for BBC's Radio
4.
Simon currently splits his time between bases in London, Sydney and
Boston, but mainly he seems to live out of his suitcase.
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