Pieces About Places

Travel journalism has been part of Keith Aitken's portfolio for more than two decades. He has written evocative and penetrating features from such far-flung spots as Soviet Russia, America, the West Indies, South Africa, the Middle East, and Europe from the Faroes to the Ukraine.

His travel material has appeared in several newspapers and magazines, as well as in his warmly remembered Postcards programmes for BBC Radio Scotland, in which he was to be variously found confronting an alligator in the Everglades, running aground on a sandbank in the Venetian lagoon, braving the home-made brandy in the Slovenian Alps and shivering at the top of the Eiger in the Bernese Oberland.

The same irrepressible enthusiast's eye makes him a peerless guide to his own native land, and he has written extensively about Scotland, both for magazines like the US-based Scottish Life and in various books, notably the current Insight Guide to Edinburgh.

Many journalists write movingly about the Scottish landscape. Others have an acute understanding of Scottish society, history, politics and people. Keith Aitken is one of the few who can bring all these qualities together, and convey Scotland to the world as vividly and tellingly as he describes the world to Scots.

To contact Keith, click on the following link: keith@kaitken.fsnet.co.uk