Simon Gaul

Simon Gaul, a businessman, writer and peripatetic traveller, has written numerous travel books. He has sailed nearly every ocean, driven from London to Beijing in 1990 before the USSR collapsed, and reported on that 55-day expedition for the Sunday Correspondent & others. He owned The Travel Bookshop (of cinematic fame) in Notting Hill for many years.

Simon Gaul, a businessman, writer and peripatetic traveller, has written numerous travel books. He has sailed nearly every ocean, driven from London to Beijing in 1990 before the USSR collapsed, and reported on that 55-day expedition for the Sunday Correspondent & others. He owned The Travel Bookshop (of cinematic fame) in Notting Hill for many years. See less