Marie Barbieri, BA Hons

Location: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Member Since: 24 January 2005

Professional Associations

 Travelwriters.com

Introduction

Freelancing for in-flight and international travel publications, UK-born travel writer and photographer, Marie Barbieri, has been planting footsteps across the globe for over 25 years. Now an Australian citizen, she continues to hop between hemispheres writing for UK and Australian magazines.

Marie has contributed to a diverse range of titles. Clients include: Jetstar, Going Places, Yeahbaby, Islands, Paradise and Baltic Outlook in-flight magazines, Wanderlust, Australia & New Zealand, Italia!, Luxury Travel & Style, Style Tropical North Queensland, Holidays for Couples, Arrivals + Departures, Great Walks, Australian Coast & Country, Let's Travel, Asian Geographic Passport, Fitness First and Stamford Life (hotel guest magazine).

Marie spent several years living, working and travelling in Australia before becoming a citizen. She has an in-depth knowledge of the country’s east coast, particularly in and around Sydney, where she lived before finally settling in Adelaide. She now devotes most of her time to freelance projects within South Australia, as well as completing assignments on subjects in other states.

Recent Australian travels have had Marie motu-hopping in the Polynesian splendour of the Cook Islands, riding camels along the Fleurieu Peninsula, rambling across Kangaroo Island, cycling the Gold Coast, hiking the Flinders Ranges, driving through the outback to Lake Eyre, burning adrenaline on Hamilton Island, exploring the isolated wilderness of Tasmania's Bay of Fires region and wining and dining in the Barossa Valley.

Marie has just returned from in-depth explorations of Australia's Geographe Bay area in the far south-west, as well as the Exmouth and Ningaloo Reef region in the far north-west.

Upcoming travels will take Marie to the colours, temperatures and curvatures of various regions in Tasmania, South Australia's Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas, and Cairns in far north Queensland.

Marie has also explored: New Zealand's North Island (particularly the Bay of Islands and Rotorua); the east and west coasts of America (particularly San Francisco); the Caribbean islands of Anguilla, Barbados and Aruba; the Greek islands of Amorgos, Koufonissi, Mykonos, Santorini, Crete and Paxos; the Italian regions of Parma, Piacenza, Pavia, Lake Garda and Capri; France's Gorges du Verdon and the Azorean island of Sao Miguel.

Marie enjoys long-distance, theme-based rail travel, and is an avid bushwalker and cyclist often commissioned for nature-based activity features. Destinations she knows comprehensively include: Sydney, Adelaide, Lake Garda, Mykonos and Paxos.

Also a qualified complementary therapist and nutritionist who ran her own therapy business in the UK, Marie continues to write in the field of health and natural therapies. Health publications she has contributed to include: Australian Natural Health, Nature & Health, Yoga Magazine and Massage Magazine, and she is also a complementary health columnist for Bicycling Australia.

Marie has an extensive photography archive and can provide professional, high-resolution digital images. She is available to discuss feature or photography assignments, including words/pictures packages on any of the above subjects.

To view some of Marie's photography, visit: www.mariebarbieri.weebly.com

Publishing Credentials

Inflight publications: Jetstar, Going Places, Yeahbaby, Islands, Paradise and Baltic Outlook. Australian/Asian publications: Luxury Travel & Style, Holidays for Couples, Arrivals + Departures, Great Walks, Australian Coast & Country, Asian Geographic Passport and Stamford Life (the hotel guest magazine). UK publications: Wanderlust, Australia & New Zealand, Italia and Devon Life. Health publications: Massage magazine, Yoga Magazine, Fitness First, Nature & Health and Australian Natural Health.

Awards Received

In 2004, Marie was awarded first prize for GREECE magazine's inaugural travel-writing competition with 'Painting the Town White' (published in issue 9).