Nick Newbury

My passion for adventure and travel runs in the family. Growing up on a farm meant there was always plenty of scope for adventure and having a foreign mother meant trips overseas were regular parts of my childhood. Travel became more adventurous and far-flung through school and university holidays. After full time education I worked first at Procter & Gamble and then in the City as a corporate financier at both ING Barings and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. This line of work meant a lot of time was spent abroad. It was while on one of these trips that the idea for Original Travel first came about and so in a somewhat dramatic career change I ended up co-founding a tour operator.

I have explored and worked in six of the world's continents; teaching in remote parts of South America, climbing peaks in the Middle East and Africa, taking part in sports tours in Asia, Africa and the USA amongst others. A fascination for discovering the extreme and unusual abroad helped in founding Original Travel. Some of my favourite places still remain close to home but given the choice of anywhere to go, Latin America would always get my vote. While trips are now pretty varied there are two common themes in every trip I go on; a jar of Marmite and a tendency to be put to sporting shame by my wife.