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Just One Thing: a moveable office

Just One Thing: a moveable office

Every travel writer needs to be able to work on the move, says Sarah Gillespie

Mar 11, 2025
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Like Virginia Woolf, many of us fantasise about having a “room of one’s own” in which to craft that award-winning feature: the perfect office replete with candles, endless cups of tea, and your favourite records.

But for travel writers, the reality is often very different. We lose so much time in transit: on trains, in planes, waiting to board, or on an …

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Sarah Gillespie
Sarah Gillespie is an award-winning freelance travel writer with bylines in Travel + Leisure, The Guardian, The Times and Sunday Times and National Geographic Traveller UK. She lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
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