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James Dunford Wood

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Founder and former MD of Travelintelligence.com, James teamed up with online publisher James Blackwell to launch Worldreviewer in the summer of 2007.

James has spent much of his life travelling: from early voyages across the sands of the Sahara and up the Niger to Timbuktou, to one of the last of the 'Magic Buses' to run the route from the Charing Cross Road to Delhi, from jail in Morocco to the snows of Kilamanjaro. In between his own travels he worked in the film business, but his yearning for travel eventually took him back on the road permanently, working as a guide for a number of major tour companies throughout the 1990s. He led groups of tourists through the remoter regions of Central Asia, up the Yangste and along the more well trodden paths of Western Europe. More recently he was director and managing editor of 'London This Week' magazine, before founding Travel Intelligence with AA Gill in April 2000, and World Reviewer with James Blackwell in 2007.

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Recent reviews by James Dunford Wood

Cestello Annunciation (Botticello)

Cestello Annunciation (Botticello)

Works of Art in Florence, Italy

Botticello's Cestello Annunciation of 1489 is a spectacular painting in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence - in the same room as the larger, more well...

The Chedi Hotel, Muscat

The Chedi Hotel, Muscat

Best Hotels in Muscat, Oman

Great service, small hotel, with a good selection of activities: try the Dhow private charter, or a guided safari to Wahiba Sands, with dinner with...

Rizong monastery

Rizong monastery

Churches & Abbeys in Kashmir, India

A stunning monastery 70km out of Leh in Ladakh, high in the Himalaya. Isolated and magnificent, well worth the 3 hr bus journey from Leh through...

Pacific Coast Highway

Pacific Coast Highway

Road Trips in Santa Cruz, United States

Spectacular route - best driven north-south so you have the coast on your driving side. First stop Monterey, for the world famous aquarium, and in...

Piazza San Marco

Piazza San Marco

Squares, Streets & Urban Spaces in Venice, Italy

Piazza San Marco - St Mark's Square - is one of the grandest urban spaces in the world. The time to come is early evening - as the heat of the day is ...

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James Dunford Wood has reviewed 33 countries.