Solange Hando
TRAVEL WRITER AND PHOTOGRAPHER

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I am a full-time travel writer and photographer, bilingual (English/French), contributing to a range of magazines in the UK and worldwide. Regular outlets include Francophile and property magazines, inflight and travel publications, women’s magazines, newspapers. I edit Eastern Airways French in-flight magazine.

I also write for the internet: I am a feature writer and topic editor on South Asia / China for suite101.com, and contribute to travel websites including  thetraveleditor.com and travelintelligence.com.

I am a regular contributor to National Geographic books (Journeys of a Lifetime, Secret Journeys of a Lifetime, Food Journeys, Sacred Places) and also featured in Quintessence 1001 Escapes.

I love the challenge of writing in different styles and take my own pictures, people and scenery, which have been widely published, including front covers of in-flight magazines.

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I was honoured to attend the 2008 coronation in Bhutan of the Fifth Thunder Dragon King, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk.

 

SPECIALIST TOPICS I am definitely a butterfly who enjoys hovering here and there. Most of my work is magazine features although I recently contributed to 'Secret Journeys', 'Journeys of a Lifetime', 'Sacred Places' and 'Food Journeys of a Lifetime' (all National Geographic Books), and '1001 Escapes' (Quintessence publication) and wrote a 5000 word introduction on Paris 1909 for Bookcraft. Topics include winter sun worldwide, offbeat destinations (Bhutan, Ladakh), France, Mediterranean resorts, self-catering holidays, city breaks, activity holidays, from painting to trekking (Himalayas, Isle of Man, Madeira), and hotel reviews. Insatiable wandering instincts have taken me from hidden corners of France to Everest Base Camp. I visited a lepers’ colony in Vietnam, met the rebels in Nepal and was scrubbed lobster red in a Tunisian hammam. But don’t get me wrong. I don’t mind roughing it now and then but I can cope with five star luxury. ^

 

DESTINATIONS Africa Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, South Africa Americas Costa Rica, Cuba, Grenada, Peru, St Lucia, Tobago and Trinidad Eastern Mediterranean Crete, Cyprus, Turkey (Bodrum, Lycian Coast, Istanbul) Middle East Jordan, Oman Asia Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam Europe Britain - S.E. England, Wales, Isle of Man, Scotland Croatia France - South, Paris, Alps, Lorraine, Poitou-Charentes,        Cévennes, Dordogne, Lot Greece - Corfu Italy - Amalfi Coast, Sardinia, Sicily, Sorrento Maltese Islands Montenegro Portugal - Madeira, Algarve Slovenia - Lake Bled Spain -  Costa Calida, Costa Daurada, Costa del Sol,      Cordoba, Granada, Seville,      and Spanish islands: Majorca, the Canaries ^

 Solange Hando


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