ABOUT
"Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures" -Lovelle Drachman
I'm a British-born freelance writer, editor, and digital content creator who has lived, worked, and traveled over six continents. I'm now settled in my childhood second home, France, where I'm hoping to become nationalised and finally earn myself the official right to râler like a French girl.
As a writer, I specialize in travel, outdoors, and budget travel, as well as being a guidebook author for the Rough Guides and a Digital Editor & Creative Director for France Media Group and FrenchEntrée, helping other francophiles integrate into French life.
QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS
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BA (Hons) Recording Arts (1st Class)
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Diplomas in Freelance Journalism and Creative Writing, London School of Journalism
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TEFL and TESOL English teaching certificates
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Native English speaker, fluent French speaker, expert in cross-cultural mime ;)
Blessed (or burdened?) with an insatiable curiosity and a conviction that every challenge should be treated as a new adventure; I believe that each travel memory is a story waiting to be told. Stories like volunteering in Cambodia and Indonesia, road-tripping solo through the Turkish Hatay, or riding the iron ore train across the Mauritanian desert; but equally when I ended up in a Peruvian hospital with salmonella and missed my long-awaited trek to Machu Picchu (I still haven't seen the Inca citadel) or that time when I got lost in the Atacama Desert and wheeled a broken bike for hours to reach civilisation.
When I'm not on the road, you’ll find me enjoying adventures of the everyday kind, whether hiking or horseback riding with my dog, practicing my deadlifts at the gym, debating human consciousness over breakfast pancakes, or convincing myself that I need to add yet another hobby to my bucket list...
Read more about my travel philosophy in my blog "Why I Travel"