| 词条 | Mark Porter (writer) |
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| name = Mark Porter | image = Mark Porter (writer).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Mark Porter (b. 16 December 1960) is a Walsall-born, Scottish based author and publisher. | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|12|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Walsall, England | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = | language = | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|http://www.cycle-guides.co.uk}} | portaldisp = }} Mark Porter (born 16 December 1960) is a Walsall-born French-based travel writer and publisher. Porter is the author of Coast to Coast Cycle Routes ({{ISBN|9780955508264}}), 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 ({{ISBN|9780954482763}}), and Tartan Army Tour Guide to Europe ({{ISBN|0954482778}}) 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 Newsweek,[1][2][3][4] Standpoint Magazine,[5] Daily Mail,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] The Guardian,[17][18] The Herald (Glasgow),[19][20][21][22] Cycle Magazine [23] He is also a food writer (ten years as a contributing editor of Waitrose Food Illustrated) and has been a restaurant inspector for the Good Food Guide since 2011. He also runs several cycling websites. Porter spends his time between Scotland and France and has set up VeriTable,[24] a new French restaurant site designed to select the good from the bad in a nation whose culinary standing is increasingly questioned. References1. ^French Cheesmakers Crippled by EU Health Measures Newsweek August 26, 2014 2. ^'Torture in a Can': French Foie Gras Farmers Failing to Improve Appalling Conditions Newsweek 17 October 2014 3. ^Northern Ireland's Financial Crisis Sparks Fears of Violence Newsweek 14 November 2014 4. ^Erdogan Draws Veil Over Genocide Claims With Gallipoli Commemoration Newsweek 24 April 2015 5. ^The Fifth Republic's Darkest Days? Standpoint Magazine January 2015 6. ^[https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-138498829 Poles apart] Daily Mail 9 November 2005 7. ^[https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-141500970 Village turns on the Laird] Daily Mail 28 January 2006 8. ^Six Nations: worth a try Daily Mail 1 February 2006 9. ^A wheelie good adventure: Cycling Europe from Norway to Sicily Daily Mail 23 May 2010 10. ^A peaceful pedal: Cycle paths and country inns on a leisurely bike ride across Brittany Daily Mail 21 July 2011 11. ^Around Bordeaux On Two Wheels Daily Mail 21 December 2012 12. ^280 Mile Tour de Manche Daily Mail 14 March 2014 13. ^Basque in the glory: Sumptuous food and spectacular scenery on a road trip to Bilbao Daily Mail 7 May 2014 14. ^Cannes Film Festival: How to Embrace Glitz and Glamour without Maxing Out Your Credit Card Daily Mail 14 May 2014 15. ^A Beguiling Brew. Drink world's finest tea amid divine scenery in Dargeeling Daily Mail 23 August 2014 16. ^Journey into the darkest days of the First World War: Taking a memorial tour of Turkey's Gallipoli Peninsula to remember the heroes slain 100 years ago Daily Mail 24 April 2015 17. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/jul/22/cycling-brittany-roscoff-devon-cornwall Cycling Brittany: Roscoff, Devon, Cornwall] The Guardian 22 July 2011 18. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/may/25/scotland-best-classical-music-festivals?INTCMP=SRCH Scotland's best classical music festivals] The Guardian 25 May 2012 19. ^Travel in the finest company The Herald (Glasgow) 23 May 2014 20. ^Titanium is hard to fault The Herald (Glasgow) 25 July 2014 21. ^Electric dream: Battery power makes light of a stunning stretch of the C2C coast-to-coast cycle route The Herald (Glasgow) 17 March 2015 22. ^Scale new heights in good taste The Herald (Glasgow) 15th Jan 2016 23. ^Channel Hopping Cycle Magazine August 2013 24. ^VeriTable {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025123653/http://veritable.org.uk/ |date=25 October 2014 }} External links
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