Andrew Eames was Executive Editor of guidebook publisher Insight Guides before going freelance.  He writes regularly for the travel sections of The Times, the Evening Standard and the Daily Express.  His critically acclaimed book The 8.55 to Baghdad traces the mysterious and little-known journey that Agatha Christie made from London to Baghdad in 1928.  His latest book, Blue River, Black Sea, traces his fascinating journey by bicycle, boat and on foot along the river Danube and explores how much we really know about the New Europe.  Blue River, Black Sea was published by Black Swan in 2010.