LidDavidBaird

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Journalist, photographer, author. Born Shropshire, UK. Resident in Spain. Research/write books (travel, guide, history) on Spain, also novels. He has twice won Spain’s national travel-writing prize for foreign writers and journalists.
Before basing himself in Spain, he worked as reporter and editor on newspapers and magazines around the world, including The Times of London, the Daily Express, the Ottawa Citizen and the Far Eastern Economic Review.
His reports on Spain, Portugal and North Africa have appeared in many publications, including Maclean’s Magazine (Toronto), The Economist, Daily Telegraph, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Sydney Morning Herald and South China Morning Post.
His books include:
Typhoon Season
Don’t Miss the Fiesta!
Between Two Fires – Guerrilla war in the Spanish sierras
Sunny Side Up – the 21st century hits a Spanish village
Inside Andalusia
East of Malaga – Essential guide to the Axarquía and Costa Tropical
Versatile Guide to Spain
Back Roads of Southern Spain
The Incredible Gulf (travel in the Australian Outback)