Oliver Blacklay
Co-Head
As the co-head of Black Tomato, I’m at the forefront of how we plan, organise, and bring trips to life for our travelers – feeding their curiosity for the world with new, exciting, and ever more surprising ways to see it. Ultimately, we hope to inspire our travelers to live, and to travel, remarkably. To know that there’s no stone that can’t be overturned, and no horizon that can’t be reached.
I sensed this when – age eight – my family moved to Australia many years ago. London, which had been my home until then, shape-shifted into a ‘new’ home: one of kaleidoscopic corals and great, endless plains. I may have been young, but I’ll never forget the joy that came with seeking out those new experiences and places, the thrill of exploring such remarkable and spectacular landscapes.
And it’s a feeling that’s stayed with me ever since, leading me to travel extensively throughout Europe, Japan, North America, and the Indian Subcontinent – and to taste my way through a vast breadth of street food cultures. Whether that be the pizzaiolo in Naples or the Vada Pav and Panipuri in Mumbai. Each country has its own quirks, its own traditions, its own spices.
'The stuff of legends'
A closer look at GreeceI’ve always been fascinated by the ocean; there’s just something about those seemingly endless waters that extend to every corner of the world. I’ve never felt this fascination more keenly than when on the rugged, wine-dark sea of the Greek Ionian Islands. Steeped in the tales of weary Odysseus and whimsical, mighty Greek gods, these islands are the stuff of legends. And the perfect place to relax with my family.
To me, being by the sea is regenerative. Between messing around with boats and snorkelling and diving, or simply sitting, reading a good book, and sipping on a cold drink, it’s that time when you have no worries, as if they drift away with the movements of the tide. And it’s those moments with my family that I look forward to more than anything else. Just us, sun, sand, and sea.
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