A little bit about me
I was born in east London on the 27th January 1981. I lived on the edge of London, then moved to Kingussie in the Highlands of Scotland. I have also lived in Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland; Kinloch Rannoch, Perthshire, Scotland; North Bay, Ontario, Canada; Avoch on the Black Isle, North Scotland; Inverness, Scotland; Fort William, West Coast of Scotland; and now the beautiful city of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. I studied for Architecture but left that behind when I started my own business, Cali Net, in Spring 1998. During my time there I spent a lot of time travelling around the UK on business and working with very talented people on many fantastic and industry revolutionising projects.I spent a year travelling and then went to work for Cap Gemini Ernst and Young. I worked for HotScot Technology before setting up another company - GoEffect - with Rob Hilken, a former co-worker from Cali Net, specialising in Internet Marketing for the travel industry.
Since travelling in Canada in 2002 I have been putting together a Canadian travel website which in the past few years has grown in size and popularity. Trail Canada, my website, is the most popular independent travel guide to Canada. I now run Trail Canada and GoEffect.
During my time in Canada in 2002 I met Vanessa. We have travelled many places together and spent a lot of time, money and effort seeing each other crossing back and forth across between Canada and the UK.
In September 2004 I moved to Vancouver to be with Vanessa and on June 16, 2005 we were married at a small, intimate and perfect ceremony in Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Park. Our reception (kept a secret to the guests until they arrived) was held at the top of Grouse Mountain overlooking the city of Vancouver, English Bay and beyond.
Vanessa and I are recently completed the trials and tribulations of immigration to Canada and now live in Vancouver’s West End.
