Hi, I’m Louise Goldsbury, a travel writer since 1999 — yes, last century!

If you want to know more about that, read How I Became a Travel Writer.

More recently, I have specialised in cruising, because it pays the best money for the least effort on press trips. But seriously, I just love the ocean and escaping reality on ships.

Except for those two dark, dry years when the world went mad, so I roamed around outback Queensland and Western Australia, while freelancing for The Australian.

From 2022-2024, I travelled around Europe, as a digital (and nautical) nomad.

In 2025, I’m writing a book, she says optimistically. This newsletter is like a first draft. And yet I still don’t know whether it’s a memoir or a novel that fictionalises my true stories. For now, it’s all truth. The stuff you won’t read in my published articles.

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A travel writer specialising in the least respected type of travelling. Read the real story behind my 100+ cruises.

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Hello, I'm a nautical nomad. Roaming the world by sea. Travel writer for 20 years. I used to have jobs! Managing editor of Cruise Critic and Cruise Weekly; The Solo Traveller columnist in Escape etc. Substack is for snippets from my stories...