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Looking
for an Indian Ocean specialist? Then look no further. I am a
British travel writer based in Mauritius where I live with my
husband and partner, Eric Roberts and three mutts. I have 20 years
experience writing mainly for UK and overseas travel publications and
have written or contributed to over 30 guide books.
Add
newsletters, consultancies, updates, on-line guides (and photography by
‘him indoors’ who stays mainly outdoors) we work as a team coming up
with well-researched copy and visuals which are fresh, informative,
bang-up-to-date and more to the point - on time.
I
was ‘made’ in Greece, born in Mauritius and grew up in London and it’s
thanks to this Greco-Mauritian heritage that I speak French, Greek,
Creole and yes - English too. I now specialize in Mauritius and
the neighbouring islands of Reunion and Rodrigues,
Seychelles and Sri Lanka, destinations that I have regularly
visited over the years.
I
can provide an insider’s view of what it’s really like along with what’s
hot and what’s not, if that’s what you’re looking for, but if you’re
after straight destination pieces or anything unusual I can do that too.
My
great passion is animal welfare. I have written about dog
sledding in Canada, walking with rescued dogs in the
mountains of northern Cyprus, walking in the wild with lions, the
stray dog population in Mauritius and more recently toddling with over
100 giant Aldabra tortoises on the remote island of Rodrigues and
the outer reaches of Seychelles.
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I
am the main contributor and updater of the Insight Guide to Mauritius,
Reunion and Seychelles and sole author of the Berlitz Guide to
Mauritius, Thomas Cook Travellers Seychelles, Thomas Cook Hotspots
Seychelles and Thomas Cook Hotspots Mauritius.
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ARTICLES
My articles have appeared in The Sunday Times, The Times, The
Sunday Telegraph and The Independent. Others include the travel
sections of A Place in the Sun, Living France. Dogs Today, Bella
as well as in-flight magazines, such as Emirates’ Open Skies. I’ve
also written a locally produced booklet, Living or Settling in
Mauritius for the expatriate community and am currently working on
a screenplay set in Mauritius.
EXAMPLES OF PUBLISHED WORK
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PICTURES
Eric takes the
pictures for many of the guides and travel articles although in
emergencies I have been known to press the shutter myself. We have
a digital photo library specializing in all aspects of the Indian
Ocean region, which we use to illustrate our own guides and supply
to others, including the front cover of the Bradt Guide to
Mauritius.
PHOTOGRAPHY SELECTION
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BOOKS
My guidebooks
have been published by the AA, APA (Insight) and Berlitz, Thomas
Cook and Moorlands on Mauritius, Rodrigues, Seychelles and Sri
Lanka and updates include Bali, Java and Lombok, Goa, Maldives,
Cyprus, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Tenerife, Florence and Zante,
Parga and Kefalonia.
In 2002 I moved to Mauritius
and my work now focuses on the Indian Ocean region.
Thomas Cook
Hotspots Mauritius (2009)
Thomas Cook Hotspots
Seychelles (2009)
Thomas Cook Travellers
Seychelles (2007)
Berlitz Mauritius
(2006)
Insight Guide Mauritius,
Reunion & Seychelles (2000)
Living or Settling in
Mauritius? (2006)
AA Fifty Walks in Essex
(2002)
Rodrigues Travel &
Discovery (1998)
Moorlands Sri Lanka
(1995)
Moorlands Mauritius
(1992)
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BOOK
UPDATES, PHOTOGRAPHIC INPUT AND
CONSULTANCIES
Insight Guide Mauritius, Reunion and Seychelles
(2002/2003/2005/2006/2009)
Thomas Cook Travellers Sri Lanka (2009)
Thomas Cook Hotspots Sri Lanka (2009)
Thomas Cook Hotspots Seychelles (2009)
Thomas Cook Hotspots Goa (2009)
Berlitz Pocket Guide Mauritius (2007/2008)
Bradt Guide Mauritius (2002)
Bradt Guide Northern Cyprus (2002)
Globetrotter Maldives (2002/2004)
Globetrotter Mauritius (2002/2004)
Globetrotter Tenerife (2001)
Globetrotter Florence & Tuscany (2000)
Insight Guide Cyprus (2002)
Compact Guide Sri Lanka (2004)
Insight Guide Sri Lanka (1999/2003)
Thomas Cook Hotspots Costa del Sol/Almeria (2001)
Thomas Cook Hotspots Majorca (2001)
Thomas Cook Hotspots Lanzarote & Fuerteventura (2001)
Thomas Cook Hotspots Tenerife (2001)
Thomas Cook Hotspots Zante, Parga & Kefalonia (2001)
AA/Thomas Cook Travellers Bali, Java & Lombok (1999)
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ONLINE GUIDES
Country guides on the Seychelles, Sri Lanka and Mauritius for
Expedia, Time Out and Fastcheck.
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TO CONTACT ME
I live in Mauritius with my husband, travel
photographer Eric Roberts. We also have a base in London, which we
visit from time to time. I can always be contacted by
email.
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BY KATERINA
ROBERTS -
EXAMPLES OF PUBLISHED WORK
Port of Call –
Port Louis, Mauritius
En route to the Mauritian capital back in 1978, my taxi
driver, a garrulous fellow with a knack for metaphor, described
Port Louis as “a wasted old woman musing on lost youth.” And the
tropes kept coming as we wound along the island’s west coast.
“They ought to dip her in the sea, give her a lifting, and start
all over again!” A lifting—that’s the local Creole for
“face-lift,” and Port Louis in those days, 10 years after
Mauritius declared its independence from Britain, was indeed in
dire need of a makeover. What a difference three decades makes.
Read full article
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Spectacular Reunion
Three million years ago Reunion was spawned from the seabed by
seismic activity to form the tip of an underwater massif known as
the Mascarene Ridge. For the first French settlers arriving in
1642 they would have seen the island hovering on the horizon like
a huge bun loaf shrouded in mist. Today’s travellers will discover
an incredible series of mountains encircled by a narrow coastal
strip with countless ravines and peaks irregularly fashioned into
three cirques, or craters, each dotted with villages, forests,
rivers and waterfalls providing countless awesome vistas.
Read full article
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Mauritius too
hectic? Escape here
The dawn flight from Mauritius to the island of Rodrigues is
every cabin crew’s nightmare. Sanjay, our steward, sulked as he
dished out breakfast to 48 zombies who, like him, had risen in the
middle of the night to check in. It didn’t help when I pointed out
to him that a scorpion was somersaulting across my meal tray. The
French holidaymakers were predictably agitated, returning
Rodriguans somewhat sanguine and Mauritians frankly frightened.
Sanjay forced his best corporate smile in an effort to pacify the
rising hysteria and muttered: “I don’t know why they’re all going
to Rodrigues. There’s nothing to do there.”
Read full article
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Mauritius - Flame Trees at Choisy Farm
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Mauritius - Lion at Casela,
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