Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Travel article for Australian Women’s Health on a kayaking trip to Spitsbergen in the High Arctic in 2006. By Caitlin Fitzsimmons The seal reclined on the ice floe, its stumpy flippers looking slightly ridiculous against its tubby body. We stopped paddling and let the kayaks glide in silence for a closer look. The seal lifted [...]
A social marketing success story as Tourism Queensland deliberates over the top 50. You know that fabulous job on Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef? I wrote about my application here on Roaming Tales the other week and about the job and the reef more generally on EcoSalon. I’ve also been tweeting about it [...]
I was lucky enough to go to Syria earlier this year, to write about an Iraqi wedding in Damascus for G2. As well as staying with an Iraqi family and experiencing Arab culture from within, I also took the opportunity to explore the fascinating, ancient city of Damascus. I’ve written an article on the highlights [...]
Congratulations to BeWILDerwood, Africa’s Eden and Ngong Ping 36O and all the award-winning travel writers. I have been a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers for about a year now. It’s a professional organisation and you are only eligible to join if you can demonstrate that you are making a living substantially from [...]
I didn’t need 80 days to travel around the world but the last month still feels pretty epic. Since leaving London in early March, I have been to eight countries on four continents. First stop was Australia, where I spent a couple of weeks visiting friends and family in and around Sydney and Brisbane. I [...]
With my Phileas Fogg cap on, I have hit the road for a month. It’s a mammoth world trip, combining Australia, Nicaragua, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand. Nicaragua was obviously a detour but it’s for work so a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do! All this has left me with plenty to [...]
Liz (aka KiwiWriter) at Write to Travel runs a weekly feature interviewing travel writers. This week she was kind enough to interview me. The questions were wide ranging, from how I got started in travel writing to my predictions for the future. “…I wanted to be a writer from an early age, although I also [...]
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