"How does it feel to have the best job in the world?"

It's the question I'm asked time and time again, and the answer is fabulous! There is no down side to being the presenter of Scottish Passport. " But what about the long hours?", you might ask. " The airport delays? The dodgy food? The sunburn?"

The answer is - you deal with it. In my book there is no down side to being a travel reporter...I am the luckiest guy in Scotland.

When the leggy lovelies in beauty contests are asked what their ambitions are, the top answer is always, "travel the world and work with people less fortunate than myself". Well, I get to travel the world and I work with people less fortunate than myself - Oh I forgot, you haven't met the Scottish passport film crew!

Unlike Miss Venezuela and her pals I didn't have to parade about wearing a dodgy swimsuit to achieve my ambitions. However, on the new series of Passport I do have to host an aerobics session on board a cruise ship wearing a very ill fitting lycra number. " Ooh - you're like a white Mr Motivator, " said one of the passengers admiringly.

Scottish Passport has been going now for ten years and I've been the presenter since day one. Many female co-presenters have come and gone in that time, leaving me looking a bit like Rod Stewart, minus the dodgy haircut. Mind you, viewers with long memories will point out over the years my barnet has been through several ill-advised changes.

I still can't believe that Passport has been running for ten years now. When it started I distinctly remember thinking, " Oh, this will be good for a year or two then I'll get bored with the travelling."  It's still going strong and so am I.

I have been working in the media for over twenty years. I started as a magazine journalist at DC Thomson and Co in Dundee and spent several years on Patches and Jackie magazine. Highlight of course, was reading the letters that came in for the Cathy and Claire problem page. I can assure you that they weren't made up and there truly were an alarming number of teenage girls who thought that Coca-Cola stopped you getting pregnant.

Working as a teenage magazine journalist was a glamorous life and in a whirl of non stop parties, fashion shoots and interviews I got to meet such stars as Nik Kershaw, the Thompson Twins and Howard Jones...ok I  realise I'm not making it sound that glamorous now.

I then moved into local radio in Aberdeen, before moving to Radio Clyde in Glasgow then onto Radio Scotland, where I still present The Brand New Opry - a country music show for people who thought they didn't like country music.

When I'm not working I like to spend my spare time keeping fit and eating. I need to do one to balance out the other and regular viewers will know that with the amount of eating I do, there's a lot of keeping fit to be done.

During my spare time on Passport Trips (What do you mean spare time on Passport trips? - crabby Producer) I like to wander around big cities on my own, read books, browse through trashy magazines and listen to my I-pod. Buying an I-pod earlier this year has been a life changing experience for me.

Just in case you're wondering the top ten tunes on it are:

1. The Thrills  - One Horse Town
2. Jamie Cullum - Singing In The Rain
3. Brad Paisley - Mud On The Tyres
4. Dixie Chicks - Travellin Soldier
5. Athlete - El Salvador
6. Johnny Cash - Hurt
7. Beyonce - Crazy In Love
8. The Coral - Pass It On
9. Shania and Alison Krauss - Coat of Many Colours
10. The Strokes -12:51