About
Marcus Reid is the editor of 2 Idiots Travel. A University College London (UCL) Computer Science graduate and former software developer, he swapped fifteen years of writing code for building and editing family travel guides. The thread between the two: a stubborn preference for evidence over hype. Marcus has travelled across 40+ countries, but the guides here are deliberately not personal trip diaries - they are researched references built so any family can plan around them.
Background & credentials
- Education: BSc Computer Science, University College London (UCL)
- Former career: 15 years as a software developer
- Now: Editor, 2 Idiots Travel - family travel guides based on climate data and seasonal research
- Focus: when to visit, month-by-month weather, crowds and cost, packing, travel with children
How the guides are made
Each destination guide starts from long-run public climate records - average daily highs and lows, monthly rainfall and wet days - averaged over many years so a single odd season does not distort the picture. That is combined with the practical side of family travel: school-holiday timing, peak versus shoulder seasons, crowd levels, and the trade-off between cost and comfort across the year. Figures cited trace back to public meteorological and tourism data; guides are reviewed and updated, and each page shows its revision date. The site does not publish paid placements dressed up as editorial, and does not run reader testimonials.
Where Marcus has travelled
A non-exhaustive list of countries behind the research and the family travel covered on the site:
Contact
Editorial enquiries: [email protected]. For more on the site, see the about page and the FAQ.