Mark Porter

Who is Mark Porter?

Mark Porter is a Walsall-born Scottish-based travel writer and publisher.

Porter is the author of Coast to Coast Cycle Routes, 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, and Tartan Army Tour Guide to Europe 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, Guardian

and other publications. He is also a food writer and has been a restaurant inspector for the Good Food Guide since 2011. He also runs several cycling websites.