Nick was born and brought up in Machynlleth, Mid Wales. During a 24 month "gap year" before embarking on a medical degree he travelled around Europe and North America. He studied medicine at Charing Cross Medical School in London. Whilst still a student he served an attachment with the Flying Doctor service in Derby, Western Australia and spent 4 weeks travelling around Southeast Asia. During this trip he had his first acquaintance with travel health, spending a large proportion of the time dashing from one squat loo to the next before returning home some 24lbs lighter.

After leaving medical school, Nick embarked on his junior medical training around the Bath area, where he still lives and practises. He completed his training as a general practitioner in 1995 and celebrated by taking a year long trip around the world. During this trip he fell down a drain in Singapore and ended up with 8 stitches to his leg. He followed up this triumph with a stiff bout of dengue fever in Jogjakarta, during which he had the notion that perhaps it might be a good idea for an established travel publisher to produce a decent, pragmatic book on travel health. He returned to the UK via New Zealand where he broke a toe playing soccer for good measure and set to work on the first edition of the Rough Guide to Travel Health in 1997. A trip to Peru in 1998 is noteworthy in that it was one of his first to not affect his health. The rest as they say, is history.

Nick is now a family doctor in Somerset but continues his special interest in travel health. He writes frequent articles for medical and lay magazines. He is currently working on setting up a dedicated travel clinic and developing his travel health website.

When not working, Nick enjoys walking, golf, soccer, playing bass in a local band and writing songs. He is married to Jo and has two children, William and Phoebe. All Jones's are currently healthy although they are planning another trip to the Antipodes and are hopeful that history does not necessarily repeat itself!