The Ambidextrous Travel Writer is a monthly advice column for travel writers & bloggers, written by author Susan Farewell.
One of the very first things I had to accept about the kind of travel writing I do is that it’s a service. While I was inspired by the likes of Lawrence Durrell, Paul Theroux […]
Years ago, I thought of writing a book called, “I left Paradise a Day Early” on the many hardships travel writers have to endure while on the road. I “shelved” the idea back then because […]
A couple of years ago, I came across a treasure. At least I think it was a treasure. Unfortunately, its real value I’ll never know. What I found, while taking a break in my boat […]
Right now, I am on flight from Johannesburg to New York, some 38,000 feet in the air. After a bit of dozing off and accepting that I just won’t get a full night’s sleep (we […]
I’ve had enough people ask me about the name of this column, so I think it’s time to define “ambidextrous travel writer”. Before I explain what an ambidextrous travel writer is, I do need to […]
I’ve just come back from a trip to Botswana and Zambia, where I was on a safari. One of the outings we took involved a boat trip through the waterways of the Okavango Delta which, […]
One of the most powerful moments of my professional life was when I was a guest writer visiting an elementary school. I asked a class of 4th graders to describe the color of the Caribbean […]
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