Mark Porter (born 16 December 1960) is a Walsall-born France-based travel writer and publisher.
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, 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 (), and 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, Porter is a freelance contributor to the Daily Mail, Newsweek,French Cheesmakers Crippled by EU Health Measures Newsweek 26 August 2014'Torture in a Can': French Foie Gras Farmers Failing to Improve Appalling Conditions Newsweek 17 October 2014Northern Ireland's Financial Crisis Sparks Fears of Violence Newsweek 14 November 2014Erdogan Draws Veil Over Genocide Claims With Gallipoli Commemoration Newsweek 24 April 2015 Standpoint,The Fifth Republic's Darkest Days? Standpoint Magazine January 2015 The Guardian,Cycling Brittany: Roscoff, Devon, Cornwall The Guardian 22 July 2011Scotland's best classical music festivals The Guardian 25 May 2012 The Herald of Glasgow,Travel in the finest company The Herald (Glasgow) 23 May 2014Titanium is hard to fault The Herald (Glasgow) 25 July 2014Electric dream: Battery power makes light of a stunning stretch of the C2C coast-to-coast cycle route The Herald (Glasgow) 17 March 2015Scale new heights in good taste The Herald (Glasgow) 15 January 2016 and CycleChannel Hopping Cycle Magazine August 2013 he now 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 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,VeriTable a new website designed to select the good restaurants from the bad in France, a nation whose culinary standing is increasingly being questioned.
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