Publishing

Mark Porter is the author of Coast to Coast Cycle Routes, a guide book to three of Britain's most popular cycle routes, all of which travel through the Lake District and Northern England, which ran for 16 editions.

He co-wrote long with Paul Land Grand Tour, a guide to Paris, Rome, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Cardiff for followers of the Six Nations rugby championships. And the Tartan Army Tour Guide to Europe, for Scottish football fans.

A former features editor of the Sunday Express after a colourful 'career' in Fleet St, Mark is a freelance contributor to the Daily Mail, Newsweek, Standpoint, The Guardian, The Herald,  of Glasgow, Politico and Cycle he writes regularly for the French political magazine, Causeur. A regular visitor to the Scottish Borders, Porter's travel column appears in the Herald's weekend magazine.

He is also a food writer (ten years as a Contributing Editor and Pudding Correspondent of Waitrose Food Illustrated) and was for four years a restaurant inspector for the Good Food Guide .