Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast • 3rd February 2026

Hell Becoming Paradise: Visiting Islas Marías, Mexico’s prison island

Islas Marías' penal colony was home to some of Mexico’s most feared criminals, but was shuttered in 2019 following reports of terrible conditions. In 2022 Mexico’s navy began allowing tourists to visit the archipelago

Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast • 20th January 2026

Climbing Fire: Hiking Guatemala's Fuego Volcano

Fuego Volcano in Guatemala is one of the most active volcanos in Central America, and hiking it has become popular with adventurous tourists. Locals have signed up serve them as volcano guides, risking their lives for better income. I joined an overnight hike on Fuego

Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast • 6th January 2026

The Dance Of The Little Devils: Boruca's Mask Rituals

Every new year in Boruca, a remote Costa Rican village, Indigenous villagers wear garish masks and bull costumes for rituals commemorating a battle against Spanish colonisers. I travelled to Boruca to witness Danza de los Diablitos: the Dance of the Little Devils

Adventure.com • 19th December 2025

These are our photo editor’s favourite shots of 2025

These photos of Guatemala’s active Fuego volcano stand out for being shots that scream ‘right time, right place’. The lava and ash are dramatic enough, but the addition of a group of travelers walking towards it helps to tell the story well—are we risking too much with volcano tourism?

Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast • 3rd December 2025

Keep Going: An Unexpected Travel Podcast

A new on-the-ground, around-the-world podcast, for which British travel writer Jamie Fullerton goes on travel experiences that are in some way… unexpected. Launching January 6, 2026

Lonely Planet • 12th September 2025

Lonely Planet: Epic Train Trips of the World

I wrote a piece about Turkey's Dogu Express night train for the Lonely Planet book Epic Train Trips of the World. The piece isn't online, but is probably on some coffee tables

Adventure.com • 12th August 2025

I spent a month on Mexico’s new Tren Maya route and found caves, cenotes and “savage capitalism”

With tracks cutting through fragile and sacred areas, many locals say it’s a ticket to social and environmental catastrophe. But what’s it like riding this controversial mega-project?

The Independent • 24th July 2025

Caves, cocktails and dances with deers: 11 days on Mexico’s Copper Canyon railway route

Mexico isn’t widely known for train adventures, but Jamie Fullerton found one of the world’s most intriguing rail routes in the country’s rural northwest

BBC • 27th May 2025

The return of Mexico's famous Tequila Express train

With "tequila tourism" gaining popularity in Mexico, a train taking tourists to the home of the spirit has relaunched after nine years away. The Tequila Express offers a gateway to an intriguing culture, alongside impressive on-board cocktails

BBC • 13th May 2025

Islas Marías: A notorious prison island turned natural paradise

In 2019, Mexico's Islas Marías prison – the last island penal colony in the Americas – finally closed. Now a biosphere reserve, the once-feared archipelago is open to tourists on restricted, navy-organised tours

The Telegraph • 27th April 2025

Lady Gaga, Mexico City, review: more brilliantly bonkers than Katy Perry in space

Over the top? Definitely. Moving? Surprisingly so. Gaga’s latest stadium concert confirmed that a star is reborn

Adventure.com • 15th March 2025

Guatemala’s volcano tours offer local guides a different path, but at what risk?

A huge eruption from Guatemala’s Fuego volcano has led to evacuations and the temporary closure of hiking trails. It’s also highlighted potential dangers for the guides facilitating the country’s hottest tourism activity. Writer Jamie Fullerton climbed Fuego to see why for many locals, working on a lava-spewing volcano is worth the gamble

The Guardian - Today in Focus • 24th February 2025

The murder and legacy of the world’s first openly gay imam

How did Imam Muhsin Hendricks change the lives of queer Muslims? Jamie Fullerton reports

The World from PRX • 20th February 2025

North Korea opens for Western tourists

On Thursday, North Korea let Western tourists visit for the first time since 2020. Reporter Jamie Fullerton looks at the ethical issues around taking a vacation in the autocratic nation

The World from PRX • 18th February 2025

Gay imam murdered over the weekend in South Africa

Muhsin Hendricks, known as one of the world’s only out gay imams and the only one in Africa, was shot dead over the weekend in what looks like a targeted hit. Hendricks was both loved and reviled for his work promoting tolerance in South Africa and around the world

The World from PRX • 12th February 2025

The Guatemalan health workers funded by Abba's 'Chiquitita'

Fifty years ago, the pop superstars ABBA donated all proceeds from the song “Chiquitita” to UNICEF. The song is still making money, and that money is now being spent in Guatemala where it’s funding medical workers in rural areas

The Telegraph • 12th February 2025

How an Abba classic helped protect thousands of children from abuse

In 1979, the Swedish pop group signed over the rights to one of their hits – more than 45 years on, it is still changing lives in Guatemala

The World from PRX • 10th February 2025

Bridges save Costa Rican sloths from road deaths - The World from PRX

There are millions of sloths in Costa Rica. But with high levels of deforestation over the past few decades and increasing contact with humans, the population is taking a hit.

The Telegraph • 22nd January 2025

The violent history of Costa Rica’s most popular souvenir

The brightly coloured balsa-wood masks are ubiquitous in the country, and of enormous significance to the indigenous people of Boruca

The Guardian • 17th January 2025

Songs, tears and resistance: the Nicaraguan exile rallying audiences in Costa Rica

As one of the tens of thousands to have fled Daniel Ortega’s regime, singer and ‘artivist’ Olguita Acuña says she has a duty to raise awareness of her country’s situation