Contributors to Itchy Feet Magazine
Find out a little bit more about our fabulous writers and photographers who help to make our publication such a great online travel magazine.
Ben Jones, New Zealand Ben is currently living in London and his love of surfing and of winter sports have taken him from the Alps to Peru over the last couple of years, and to a lot more in between.
Victoria Dawson-Wheeler
Victoria is a travel enthusiast from Wellington, whose travels have taken her across Europe, Asia and Africa. Currently living in London, Victoria is a keen photographer, traveller and writer.
Louise Alexander, UK
A full time brand manager in London, Louise is a Co-Director of Itchy Feet Magazine. She first got the travel bug on her gap year after uni and has been dreaming of exotic destinations ever since!
Polly Fryer, UK
Polly is a Co-Director of Itchy Feet Magazine. Her travel passions include anything Italian, white sand beaches with great surf & adventures in the great outdoors.
Jess Lee, New Zealand
At 18, with $25 in her pocket, Jess boarded a plane out of NZ and hasn't really stopped travelling since. She's been tear-gassed in Peru, ridden a camel across the Grand Erg Oriental, robbed by FARC guerilla's in Colombia, worked behind the counter at the Pushkar Post Office and backpacked independently through Libya, to name a few
Greg Davis, USA
Greg quit his job in corporate America and set off travelling to get away from the insanity! Armed with just a little $400 camera and no photographic training Greg found his vocation and now dedicates most of his time to travel photography. His aim is to become a full-time travel writer and photographer
Greg Fitzsimmons, USA
Greg is a writer and editor in San Francisco. When not lost within the piles of short-fiction submissions at Zoetrope: All-Story, Greg can be found exploring North California’s coastline and mountains. Greg has been lucky enough to surf and sail around much of the globe.
Ben Stubbs, Australia
Ben is a travel writer based in Canberra, Australia. Ben loves the chaos and complete anonymity that travel allows. He has eaten guinea pig in Peru, been arrested in Bangkok, acted in a Bollywood movie and traveled to the southern-most city in the World.
Laura Stone, UK
Laura’s two favourite things in life must be studying and travelling as since turning 18 she has managed to obtain 2 degrees and visit over 30 countries! She currently works as a Tour Leader for Explore and has led trips to countries as diverse as North Korea, Kazakhstan and the Faroe Islands.
Laura Adams, USA
Laura was once an environmental biogeochemist, gathering samples in ditches & playing with microscopes. She started to feel that 20 years at school were sufficient, so, no doubt leaving a future Nobel Prize behind, she now spends her days at her little wooden Texan home, writing, and has never been happier.
Kathryn Dingle, Canada
Kathryn recently returned from a year-long RTW backpacking trip which left her with an addiction to street food and passport stamps. Kathryn is studying at McGill in Montreal: she misses the mountains, 15-hr bus rides, and starting conversations with the question 'So, where are you from?'
Ellen Moriarty, USA
A freelance travel writer, illustrator, & gallery artist Ellen lives on the marsh island of St. Simons in coastal Georgia. Travelling with a backpack of paper & watercolors is her passion. Most of her travel tales are published under the heading of The Traveller’s Sketchbook. Ellen feels privaleged to travel and forever yearns to see more.
Paul Eade, UK / Sweden
Paul is a writer from England but has lived in Stockholm since 1999. He has traveled extensively in Europe and has somewhat belatedly achieved the ambition of captaining a cricket team with Guttsta Wicked Cricket Club in Sweden. paulsre@yahoo.co.uk
Marisa Lopez, USA
Marisa doesn’t sit still for very long. From Laos to Taos, she has belly-danced in Poland, taught yoga in China, and led biking trips in Provence. When not on the road, she produces cross-cultural performances, tours, film festivals and events, and has published her travel writing and photography internationally. She now lives on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.
Paul Dixon, China
Paul is an English teacher who has lived in Singapore, Indonesia, China and Saudi Arabia. He lived in Jakarta for two years and often returns to the archipeligo to indulge his passions for nasi padang and inter-island travel. Paul currently lives in China. padixon@fastmail.fm
Neil Crosbie
Neil has a philosophy of a little work and a lot of play. Since working on a Texan ranch at 16 he's been hooked on travelling. His most intense trip: Guatemala to Buenos Aires; he travelled from Panama to Colombia on a yacht. Despite taking 6 days instead of 3 & no life jackets he arrived alive in time for the Miss Colombia Beauty Pageant!