Ollie Horne

London

Deputy Digital Editor at ROADBOOK

Editor and writer. Deputy editor @roadbook Formerly assistant editor @cerealmag

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Destination marathons worth travelling for, in extraordinary natural landscapes

Jan 3, 2025 | roadbook.com | Ollie Horne

From dirt roads across the South African bush to deserts high in the Himalayas, these are some of the world’s most dramatic locations for marathons and ultra-marathonsA new year, a new set of goals to make, and what better goal is there than to commit to a marathon?
The world's best marathons for 2025

Nov 4, 2024 | roadbook.com | Ollie Horne

From World Majors to lesser known races in characterful cities, these are the best marathons for 2025Marathons are more popular than ever. More than 840,000 people signed up for the ballot to take part in 2025’s London Marathon, vastly outstripping the 57,000 or so that will be given the opportunity to take part – an increase of 261,000 applications on 2024.
Lisbon fado star Ana Moura on musical evolution, motherhood and the city's club scene

Oct 21, 2024 | roadbook.com | Ollie Horne

Fadista Ana Moura pushes ‘Portuguese blues’ into new territory, fusing the melancholic sound with semba and kizomba as inspired by her Angolan heritage and Lisbon’s club sceneAna Moura is one of Portugal’s leading fado singers – the genre of music that’s been described as Portugal’s blues, a traditional 19th-century melancholic style sung by the sailors, workers and prostitutes of Barrio Alto and Alfama in Lisbon, and centred on subjects of loss and heartache.
the Cambrian Mountains and Elan Valley

Aug 22, 2024 | roadbook.com | Ollie Horne

Taking in the Cambrian Mountains and the Elan Valley, we explore this rural, remote region of Mid Wales by bike, venturing along bumpy trails and staying in hidden bothiesIt’s golden hour at the top of a remote lane, the sun setting over grassy hillocks and glistening pools.
Focal Point: The Barbican Conservatory horticulturalists

Aug 7, 2024 | roadbook.com | Ollie Horne

British photographer Max Miechowski captures a day in the life of the Barbican Conservatory gardeners, shining a new light on the celebrated oasis, where brutalism and tropical plants meetA web of monsteras, weeping figs, ferns and shrubs climb tiers of raw concrete. One monstera, thought to be the largest in the UK, ascends from the ground floor right up to the glass ceiling, its aerial roots cascading past the encircling balconies.
The eight most successful rewilding projects in the world you can visit

Jul 9, 2024 | roadbook.com | Ollie Horne

From the prairie of Patagonia to the wilds of the Carpathian Mountains, here are eight of the most successful rewilding projects around the world you can visitIf you’ve ever walked through a sitka spruce monoculture forest, you’ll know the eerie silence that hangs over them. The closed canopy and lack of plant diversity means the comforting sounds of birds chirping and insects buzzing are often entirely absent.
The best things to do in Singapore this August

Jul 1, 2024 | roadbook.com | Joseph Koh |Ollie Horne

While there’s no official “summer season” in Singapore (it’s always sunny here), the city’s host of events, exhibitions, concerts and new openings tell a different story. From beer festivals to new restaurant and bar openings, we’ve curated the best things to do in Singapore this month to evoke that breezy summer feeling. And let’s not forget National Day, celebrating its 59th year this August.
The best multi-day hiking routes around the world

Jun 20, 2024 | roadbook.com | Ollie Horne

From the Himalayas in the east to the Appalachians in the west, these are the best classic treks in the worldThrough-hiking, multi-day treks, classic hiking – call them what you will, but walking from point A to point B in one continuous line over multiple days while carrying all that you need on your back is one hell of a way to live out an adventure. And this is exactly what we are concerning ourselves with here.
Daniel Dooreck’s LA ceramics studio celebrates Americana and tattoo-inspired designs

Apr 2, 2024 | roadbook.com | Ollie Horne

Daniel Dooreck was working as a successful wine sommelier in LA when he started learning pottery as a hobby. When the pandemic came around, he decided to sell some of the pieces he’d made. Within a week, he had sold out his stock and quit his job to set up Danny D’s Mud Shop out of his garage in Echo Park, East Los Angeles.
Mumbai artist Sameer Kulavoor on how the evolving megalopolis informs his work

Nov 8, 2023 | roadbook.com | Ollie Horne

Ahead of showing at Art Basel 2024 in Hong Kong, Indian artist Sameer Kulavoor discusses his creative practice, how his hometown of Mumbai has evolved and why travel is essential to forming new ideasMumbai-based artist Sameer Kulavoor creates geometric paintings, drawings, videos, murals and installations that explore architectural forms, and investigate how the built environment can tell us something about its residents, particularly in how they adapt existing structures.