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Question
What do you like about
your job?
Keith
I like some elements
of
my job very much. When you're on holiday you tend to only see certain
parts of the country that are pretty. But being a travel journalist,
you get to see other parts of the country you wouldn't normally
get to
visit.
Question
What's the most
interesting place you have ever visited?
Keith
I'd say the most
interesting place I have ever visited was Angola. It's somewhere I
wouldn't normally go, but I found being there very exciting.
Question
What's a normal day for
you at work?
Keith
There is no normal day
for me at work. Some days I might be scripting
or editing
or filming on
location. Every day tends to be slightly different.
Question
Do you meet interesting
people?
Keith
I meet some very
interesting people. For example, only a month ago I was in South Africa
at a town where they'd had problems with baboons
inside people's homes.
There was one man whose job it was to chase
these baboons out of town.
And to do this, he'd managed to perfectly imitate
a baboon call. It
worked very well.
Question
Do you ever feel scared?
Keith
I very rarely
feel
scared on location as we're very busy. We're too busy to feel scared.
However, there have been some instances
when we've been, for example,
in the mountains with people we don't know very well who've had a lot
to drink and we've had to leave in a hurry.
Question
Can you relax when
you're working?
Keith
I can very rarely relax
when I'm working. When other people who have gone on holiday or who are
less busy on a film shoot can relax in the evening, they can have a
glass of wine and maybe a nice, long meal. I have to go back to the
hotel room and make sure everything's ok for the next day and
to deal with all the pictures and video we've shot during that previous
day.
Question
Is there anything bad
about your job?
Keith
While being on the road
can be exciting and exhilarating,
I am a new dad and I have a very
young baby daughter at home. Not only do I miss her while I'm away a
week maybe two weeks at a time but I also feel very guilty
that my
partner has to take full responsibility for her.
Question
Do you have a dream job?
Keith
Being a travel
journalist isn't like being on holiday. It is a lot of hard work and
sometimes we can be working for 14 or 15 hours at a time. However, you
will get the odd
occasion where you're somewhere very nice, somewhere
by a beach or in the mountains with a nice view and you're waiting for
a cameraman or interviewee to turn up and you can then have a look
around and take in your surroundings and at that time it does feel like
you have a dream job, yes.
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