About Linda Jackson

Intriguing times

Prior to stepping on the travel writers' ladder, I enjoyed a colourful, intriguing and sometimes exciting life overseas - first as a member of the International Staff at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, then as wife of a British diplomat. I started my freelance travel-writing career, after a stint of organising golf instruction days, travel and golf events mainly for women for a UK national golf magazine, when I returned to live in the UK after several years working in Brussels and Dubai, and living in Barbados, Casablanca and Paris. 

A mixed bag My travel writing covers a wide range of topics and has been published in national and international lifestyle magazines; in-flight, on-line and golf publications as well as in the national press. My images are regularly used alongside features I write and have also been published alongside other journalists' work, including in The Times, The Guardian and Country Homes & Interiors.

Photo library

For over nine years I was responsible for the monthly travel section in a 250-page regional lifestyle magazine; responsible for the honeymoon destinations section in a bridal magazine for seven years, and have acted short-term as the Travel Editor for a southeastern England lifestyle publication.

I am a keen photographer so have a large and varied 'destinations and topics' image library, am a full member of the British Guild of Travel Writers and, being a golfer, also a member of the Golf Travel Writers Association.

Pigs' ears & Caribbean cook pots With an appetite for travel and an interest in worldwide cuisine, I've turned out a bit of a foodie... having nibbled pig’s ears in Portugal and slippery eels in the Po Delta; dined in trendy restaurants in Montreal and through multi-course tasting menus in Asturias; munched through healthy-eating menus in Mauritius; got bubbly on Cava in Spain, delved into sizzling cook pots in the Caribbean, and endured deliciously messy fingers eating Arbroath smokies in Scotland.

In the name of wellbeing

I’ve pranced around animal-like on grass in Portugal, been clad in lake mud in Italy, lay naked in a bath of Austrian aromatic mountain hay, and got stoned in many a spa around the world. I've beaten around numerous bushes with golf club in hand, tackled flyfishing in Ireland, tried a bit of Scilly walking, and rounded up cattle in Arizona. I've ridden through vineyards in Rioja, galloped along Durban's seashore, been memorably spooked out of my mind at Halloween in Spain, snorkelled above the 'she-devil' in Grenada, and skidood wildly 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. Hot air ballooning in Arizona was one of my highs, and as for that night under the stars in a Bedouin camp deep in the Oman desert...

Linda Jackson