About Linda Jackson

Prior to stepping on the travel writers' ladder, I enjoyed a colourful, intriguing and sometimes 'exciting' life overseas as an International Civil Servant at NATO Headquarters, then as wife of a British diplomat. I started my freelance travel-writing career on return to the UK after years of working in Belgium and Dubai, and living in Barbados, Morocco and France – and after a stint of organising golf events for women for a UK golf magazine. 

My travel writing work is wide-ranging and has been published in many national and international lifestyle magazines as well as in-flight, on-line, golf and Guardian Newspaper Group publications. Hundreds of my images have been used alongside features I and other journalists have written including in The Times, The Guardian and Country Homes & Interiors.

I am Travel Correspondent for Devon Life magazine - a 300-page monthly - and also for Devon Brides magazine; I am a keen photographer with a large image library, and am a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers and the Golf Travel Writers Association.

With an appetite for travel and being bit of a foodie, I’ve eaten my way around trendy restaurants in Montreal and through multi-course tasting menus in amazing Asturias; nibbled pig’s ears in Portugal and slippery eels in the Po Delta; munched through healthy-eating menus in Mauritius; got bubbly on Cava in Spain, and delved into the delights of sizzling cook pots in the Caribbean.

I’ve pranced around barefoot in the grass in Portugal in the name of “wellbeing”, got stoned in many a spa around the world, beaten around numerous bushes – either with camera or golf club, tackled flyfishing in Ireland and tried a bit of Scilly walking. I've also rounded up cattle in Arizona, ridden through vineyards in Rioja and galloped along Durban's seashore, been spooked out of my mind at Halloween in Port Aventura, and skidood around Quebec’s white wilderness... all in the name of travel writing.

Swimming with dolphins in Florida was great... snorkelling with manta ray in the Maldives was even greater.  And as for that night under the stars in a Bedouin camp deep in the Oman desert...

Linda Jackson