The world's most curious man contemplates writing, branding and travelling with an insane degree of nuance.

jeremy@jeremyhildreth.com

Travel

Yes, sir! (No thanks.)
Heavenly puffs
Yo ho, a bi-continental life for me
Taking the waters: special places and the power of suggestion
Wandering enhanced: this is how I'm gonna roll from now on
Distorted London: straightened out at last?
Burmese days: the road to Mandalay is paved by 8-year olds
Jeremy’s Vilnius mini-guide
Perm-36: Party in the Gulag
A museum with a deep sense of place
Outskirts of Bangkok: the monk, the BMW and the Death Railway
My first encounter with Communist China: And I'd thought Wal-Mart in America was cheap!
Macau confidential: "Happy! Happy! Happy! Haw! Haw! Haw!"
In Hong Kong, a shampoo Jean Valjean
Heat Treatment '02: Revisiting the travel writing that started it all
Adventure in Timor 4: A destination in the making
Adventure in Timor 3: "The warrior spirit" embodied
Adventure in Timor 2: Xanana's hideout
Adventure in Timor 1: Something extraordinary happened here
Dispatch from Ghadames, Libya
Dispatch from Kaliningrad 3: The Curonian Spit
The problem with first impressions
Dispatch from Kaliningrad 2: Konigsberg transmogrified
Why to bother keeping up appearances
Dispatch from Kaliningrad 1: The bridge to Tilsit
Tourist Friendliness 101
Sign of the times?
The tell-tale moai
Grits, Green and Graceland
Bilbao, Mississippi
Sights, sounds and flavours
Cuban origin
Sao Paulo surprise
Easter Island five days after Easter
"If a place is trying to fake it, then it will be exposed."
The loveable quirkiness of northeastern Europe
My night as an Estonian celebrity
Selling yarns
Thrilling cities, James Bond, and me
Notes from Japan

New destination

The WhereBrands place branding blog is the new soapbox for my strong opinions and invaluable wisdom about place-related marketing.

You’ve found me!

Not always easy. As an international brand copywriter, Wall Street Journal arts page contributor and near-nomad, the road is my home.

The constant stimulation of an ever-changing confluence of people, place and moment has shown itself to be the ideal salve for my painful curiosity about this astounding phenomenon we call human conscious life.

So I travel.

Meanwhile, I tell my stories and I help others tell theirs, doing my bit make the world safe for good writing and good marketing. I've had an eventful career so far (read the full "about me" stuff here; for better or worse, it's almost all true).

At present, I am creative director of WhereBrands, a company I founded to coach cities, countries and companies on how to make the most of [a] place. WhereBrands' site is devoted wholly to place-related marketing, branding and communications, as is the WhereBrands place branding blog.

The rest of my brilliant insights about marketing, writing and travelling you'll find right here (along with the lousy ones). I encourage you to leave comments, or, if you feel yourself a kindred spirit, drop me a line; I'm always glad to hear from clever, exotic people like you.

Speaking on YouTube

Speaking on YouTube

A string of funny and insightful anecdotes about the way countries regard (or loathe) themselves, and how that affects outsiders' perceptions (clip: 2 mins).

In the news: Branding the hard way

In the news: Branding the hard way

Jeremy tells CNN/Fortune that Estonia getting the Euro is an 'unfakeable' positive signal for the country. "It's something that they've earned from scratch."

In the news: Jeremy’s new book is out

In the news: My new book is out

Brand America (2nd edition): the making, unmaking and remaking of the greatest national image of all time. Co-authored with Simon Anholt.

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