Kate Armstrong

I (half) joke that the reason I became a travel writer was to escape the Victorian industrial town of my birth. Eventually, many years and circuitous turns later – including stints as a grape picker in France, a dancer in a Bolivian folkloric dance troupe and a volunteer in Peru, plus two years working in Mozambique – I became a full-time travel writer.

An intrepid traveller, I regularly head off solo and write about many countries, though am a repeat visitor to South Africa, Bolivia, Mexico, Canada, Portugal, Greece, USA and Australia. Recent highlights include walking along Costa Vicentina on Portugal’s west coast with a donkey, hiking in the Chimanimani National Park in Zimbabwe and flying over the Mount Elias mountains in Canada, part of the world’s largest non-polar ice-field.