Kenya. Then to the Netherlands to look into how tolerant the country was.

His entry into the magazine world in the UK came with a ten-page feature in The Sunday Times Magazine when the editor Harry Evans assigned him to write about the discoveries he had made following Van Gogh’s footsteps around Europe.

Wilkie’s involvement with the image as well as the word made a career based in the magazine world a natural choice. Similarly, a love and affinity for travel led to his long-standing editorship of KLM’s inflight magazine Holland Herald.

Ken Wilkie is a believer in quality journalism. He is a many-sided character, a lateral thinker and, in the Netherlands regarded as an expert on international publications. Ken is a lover of the blues and modern jazz. He has been interviewed on television in the UK and the Netherlands, mainly in relation to his books, and made guest appearances in the satirical TV programmes of Kees van Kooten and Wim de Bie.