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Kate Armstrong
Kate Armstrong's earliest memory of travel is running away from home as a six-year-old with her things tied up in a scarf on a stick, on a quest to find the Faraway Tree. She failed. Later in life, having journeyed further than the front gate, she was smitten by all things foreign.
Kate has an academic background in communications, history and languages. She has worked as a publicist in the UK and Australia, a volunteer in Peru, a grape-picker in France and a dancer in a Bolivian folkloric dance troupe. She spent two years in a Mozambique as a development worker, unsuccessfully avoiding malarial mosquitoes, but more effectively adding Portuguese to her other Latin-based languages.
Kate hails from Oz, although her half-Pom status has allowed her to spend extended periods in the UK. She has also travelled extensively throughout Europe, Mexico, South America and East Africa.
She has contributed to many Lonely Planet guides (see below) and trade publications. Her other travel publications include Inspiring Adventures Overseas: Special Interest Travel (Global Exchange, 2002). She has had travel articles published in The Australian, The Age, Adelaide Advertiser and the Sydney Morning Herald. She is the author of All This Talk About Careers (Allen & Unwin, 2004) and several children's educational books.
A keen photographer, capable walker, greedy gourmand and frenetic festival goer, she enjoys exploring the parks, restaurants and theatres in Australia and around the world. Although she currently works as a freelance writer in Sydney, parts of her heart are spread across South America, East Africa and Europe, and she returns regularly to reclaim them. Her search around the world for the Faraway Tree continues, although she has progressed to using a backpack.
Her favourite city in the world is Sucre, Bolivia, where she learnt to tango, speak the local lingo and cook salteñas. Her best on-the-road travel tip is 'throw away the map - get lost in your destination'.
Books Authored
- One People: Many Journeys (Hardback)
- South America on a Shoestring Travel Guide
- Southern Africa Travel Guide
- Bolivia Travel Guide
- Lonely Planet : Middle Of Nowhere
- Africa Travel Guide (30th Anniversary Edition)
- Greece Travel Guide
- Greek Islands Travel Guide
- Mexico Travel Guide
- Portugal Travel Guide
- South Africa, Lesotho, & Swaziland Travel Guide
