As a freelance journalist, Anna Nicholas has contributed to titles such as the Financial Times, The Independent, Tatler, the Daily Express and Evening Standard and for the last five years has contributed a weekly column to the Majorca Daily Bulletin. She is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has been an international invigilator for Guinness World Records. Together with explorer, Colonel John Blashford-Snell, she has also organised an expedition to carry a grand piano to the remote Wai Wai tribe in South America, which was the subject of a BBC TV documentary.