About Me

Following a pandemic-induced pivot from my former jobs in theatre, I started freelancing as a travel journalist and content writer before joining the in-house team at loveEXPLORING full-time in February 2023 as Senior Features Writer.

In the past I have contributed to publications including FOOD by National Geographic Traveller, TIME, Adventure.com, Breathe Magazine and The Independent. I was shortlisted for ‘National Consumer Feature of the Year’ in the Travel Media Awards 2023.

All portraits by Rhianna Thompson, 2022.

Staffordshire-born and Northants-based, I also lived in Birmingham and London for a number of years. From poetry as a kid to playscripts as a postgrad, writing has always been the thread tying my creative life together.

My earliest memories of adventure are childhood summers in Somerset and wet weekends in Wales, which I loved in their own right — and still do. But they only did so much to quench the wanderlust I inherited from my grandmother; a thirst I couldn’t satisfy until I was in my teens. Deeply envious of my well-travelled friends and their holidays to places I had only ever seen on maps or the TV, my fascination with far-off lands led me to learning the capital cities and flags of the world, as well as collecting postcards.

Today, as well as travelling extensively in my homeland, I have sampled artisan wine in the foothills of Mount Etna; seen the sunrise from a hot-air balloon above the Emirati desert; toured the madrasas and museums of Marrakech; hiked through the snow-spangled Canadian Rockies; road-tripped across Malta, Croatia and Iceland; and journeyed solo to Copenhagen, Lundy Island, Ireland’s most northerly point, and by train from London to Budapest.

Besides travel, a few of my other favourite things are my nieces, dogs, cooking, reading, singing, sea breezes, and Yorkshire puddings. I also love interior design and enjoy making my home a shrine to all the places I’ve been.

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Back in October, I had the absolute pleasure of visiting Ervins Labanovskis and his wonderful family in rural Latvia for Food by National Geographic Traveller. From his home, a timber cottage where he spent summer holidays from the age of 10, Ervins
From above, Reykjavík resembles a toytown. Playschool-coloured buildings stacked together in Lego blocks; people scattered among them like ants, cars the size of matchboxes. But look closer, and you'll see that even the city can't escape Icela
In the footsteps of giants... One of my highlights of 2022 was visiting Northern Ireland for the first time. I based myself in Belfast, a city I adored, and took a coach trip to the Giant’s Causeway for the day. Beginning in a rainy Carrickfe
After a long posting break, I'm back on the grid with some of the prettiest scenes from my Lake Como holiday last June! I had a very different caption in mind for this post; I'd envisaged going into detail about why I didn't love it here as much as
Reflections 🌙 On paper, 2022 has been the most successful and significant year of my professional life. A year full of adventures and achievements I could only have imagined this time last year. And while I rightly celebrate those accomplishments
Postcards from Bath 🤍 Going through all the photos I've still not shared and there's so many! These are from last November 🙈 I really like Bath, it's a city that doesn't feel like a city. I've always thought it would be the perfect place to live
Merry Christmas ✨️ Whether you celebrate or not, I wish you a peaceful day. I hope you feel loved, safe and supported wherever you are in the world ❤️ // Throwback to December 2019 in Amsterdam. How things have changed since then!
Need a last-minute Christmas gift for the gin lover in your life? 🍹 In September, I took part in the award-winning Gin School at @salcombegin's waterfront distillery in Devon and it was so much fun! Not only fun, but absolutely fascinating! Once y