I'm Alex Robertson Textor. I am a travel writer and editor based in London (which feels strongly like home to me, despite my ongoing anger around Brexit) – and sometimes, when I’m especially lucky, Lisbon.
My love of travel runs deep. My parents stuffed me into a back carrier when I was a newborn and took me along on a round-the-world adventure. We stayed in Thailand – where my father spent a good share of his professional life – for several months. My very first word was a Thai word. Adolescence brought two longish stints in Europe – one in Vienna, the other split between Vienna and the tiny southwestern German federal state of Saarland. The San Francisco Bay Area was home before, between, and after these forays abroad. Along the way I have also lived in southern Minnesota, Ann Arbor, and New York City.
I edit and publish Fields & Stations, a print travel magazine that publishes good writing for curious travellers.
I have written travel articles and occasional cultural commentaries for the New York Times, Guardian, ELLE Singapore, Condé Nast Traveler (US), the Conway Bulletin, Monocle, Public Books, Colours, and National Geographic Traveler, among other publications. I was the founding editor of the EuroCheapo blog in 2007 and contributed regularly to Gadling for three years. I have also blogged for Jaunted, Gridskipper, Sunvil, vtravelled, roundtheworldflights, Altimtr, and National Geographic Traveler's Intelligent Travel. I updated chapters on the French West Indies and Montserrat in the lamentably discontinued Rough Guide to the Caribbean; in addition I've pounded countless pavements as a hotel reviewer for EuroCheapo, covering a dozen cities in total. I also have loads of experience as an editor, detailed somewhat on my work with me page.
I continue to work slowly on a book about places along the edges of Europe. These include five islands, one overseas territory, a Spanish beach town, a Kurdish-majority city in southeastern Turkey, a city straddling the Ural River in far western Kazakhstan, and lastly the fourth-largest city in Russia.