Calum Glenny

Calum Glenny is a valued partner of several travel guides including Rogues Caribbean Guides. Calum brings his travel experiences to the fore through regularly writing travel blogs from trips around the world. Since retiring as Chief Superintendent with Police Scotland, Calum has used his extensive experience in the planning, delivery, safety, security and policing of major events and venues throughout the UK, Barbados, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia in a consultative role.

Calum has provided an overview on books such as Rogues in Paradise (Ian R. Clayton), The Fall of Policing (Dave Marshall) and Toolkits for the Mind (Dan Ross). 

Back in March 2022, Calum’s initial blog on Barbados was picked up and published internationally by Barbados Today and used as a means of highlighting the struggle small local businesses faced coming out of the lockdowns imposed during the worldwide COVID pandemic.

After positive feedback and encouragement, Calum moved on and wrote a blog about a walk through his hometown in Gourock, Scotland. He has gone on to write further blogs which are all published on Avidtraveller.news. 

Many of Calum’s blogs which are fast approaching thirty in number provide an international flavour, covering some exotic locations visited with his wife, family, and friends since his retirement. Within his blogs, he highlights the very best of services encountered and recommends restaurants and experiences, more often than not off the beaten track. Some blogs are more personal and identify local people who excel in business and offer the best products or services. Always respectful of privacy, Calum actively promotes individual and business names to fellow travellers. 

Christened the ‘Avid Traveller’ by Rogues Guides, the name has stuck with readers eagerly awaiting his next chapter in this journal of travel. Many ask the simple question, 

‘Where next?’