''We need to travel. If we don't offer ourselves to the unknown, our senses dull, our world becomes small, and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to our horizon; our ears don't hear the sound around us. Our experience is restricted, as we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting....''

Kent Newburn "Letters to my son".

Photography

Lizzie Wood is a freelance journalist who specialises in travel writing. She has enjoyed a privileged travel history, which started at the age of 19 when she backpacked across China’s diverse countryside – a trip which fuelled her passion for photographic travel journalism. Since flying out of Hong Kong in 2001, Lizzie has taken pleasure in travelling to often undiscovered parts of the world, including a unique month spent in the suffocating confines of North West Greenland’s periglacial settlements. More recently, Lizzie has enjoyed independently travelling to India’s West coast and touring Egypt on her own terms. Lizzie frequently takes advantage of short breaks to Europe, and a world-wide family means she flies regularly to America’s commercial capital, New York.

As a Geography graduate, Lizzie’s articles are well researched, and written with an understanding of the regions’ cultures, environment and history, as well as an appreciation of modern conflicts and events, that aims to inspire as well as inform. With a career history in marketing, Lizzie has written copy for magazines and Web sites, her travel articles and reviews are now published by Local Secrets on a regular basis, and she is a registered contributor for farandfurther.com and cosmotourist.com. In May 2008, Lizzy won the Urchin Travel Writing Competition 2008, with her article, Observing Brighton.

Currently based in the Syndey region, Lizzie can be contacted by e-mail:

Email : lizzie@lizziewood.com