Lucinda is also a travel writer and a winner of the Ed Lacy Travel-Writing Award, for an article about Gibraltar. Her travels have taken her all over the world: an obscure pumpkin festival in Belgium, the Galapagos Islands during an Ecuadorean coup, the Torres Strait Islands (from where she hitched a lift back to Australia on a passing aeroplane), the souks of Syria, the spice island of Zanzibar, on mule-back around Petra in Jordan and to watch an orchestra play an entire concert on amplified vegetables in a smoky Viennese jazz club.
In 2017, her book The Writer Abroad was published by British Library Publishing. In January 2021, she finished writing Dickens and Travel, published by Pen & Sword Books in 2022.
Lucinda’s travel-writing clients have included Sky TV, Channel 5, Motoring & Leisure magazine, Disney Channel, The Vegetarian magazine, Siena books, INK Publishing and www.westlondontoday.co.uk. Her travel books include London (1999) and the Vienna sections of Bradman’s Business Traveller’s Guide to Europe (2005 and 2006).
Venice, ItalyStatue of a lion, Kalemegdan fortress, Belgrade, SerbiaMoses statue at Mount Nebo, JordanIstanbul railway station, TurkeyKrak des Chevaliers, SyriaLantern shop in Marrakech souk, Morocco
This article was originally published in The Vegetarian magazine in 2001. It sounded impressive to say, “I’m not around this weekend, I’m off to Belgium for a festival”, but it wasn’t to any Glastonbury equivalent that I was speeding through Le Tunnel (do French-speakers call it ‘The Tunnel’?). I was heading to Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert in the district … Read more
The following article first appeared in The Independent newspaper in March 2016. On my first visit to Italy I was 13. It was on a Schools Abroad trip, on which we spent a night in the port of Brindisi, where I and my fellow schoolmates were sexually harassed by scary sailors, made sick by the … Read more
I have been lucky enough to spend a great deal of time in New Zealand, a country that will always be very special to me. The following article appeared in Oberoi Magazine. On the morning of 3 February 1931, people in the Hawke’s Bay region of New Zealand’s North Island woke to what seemed like … Read more
In 2019, before the pandemic hit, I was lucky enough to return to Melbourne, Australia, one of my favourite cities. The following article appeared in Oberoi magazine (unfortunately, with half of the final sentence cut off by the printers!) Melbourne has a long history of loving art. The first art gallery in Australia was opened … Read more
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