About Andy

An engineer by training, Andy spent 20 years organising and leading commercial vehicle-based expeditions through the Sahara, West Africa and beyond.

Andy has also had a multiple-award-winning career as an investigative journalist, winning the Royal Television Society Award for Best Home Current Affairs documentary, and a silver PPI Irish Radio Award. He’s worked undercover and as a TV and radio reporter and producer for the BBC. He’s also an accomplished freelance writer for broadsheets and magazines.

His enduring interest in sustainable travel solutions has recently expanded into the built environment, and he is now a qualified Passive House consultant.

He’s also a certified reef restoration diver, qualified welder, and former Northern Ireland paragliding champion.

His passion is understanding systems; how they’re designed, how they fail, and how they can be rebuilt with limited resources.

If it ain’t broke, he’ll still fix it.