Profile of Heidi Fuller-love

Name:

Heidi Fuller-love

Professional title

Freelance travel, food and lifestyle writer/photographer

Address

Le Bourg
Suris 16270
Charente
FRANCE

Telephone (day)

+33 05 45 85 38 24

Telephone (evening)

+33 05 45 85 38 24

Fax:

Mobile

E-mail

heidi.fuller-love@wanadoo.fr

Website 1

http://monsite.wanadoo.fr/fullerlove.freelance

Website 2

http://monsite.wanadoo.fr/crossing.the.loire/

Biography

Before turning to writing, Heidi Fuller-love ran a successful London comedy cabaret venue where the likes of Mike Myers (Austin Powers) and Jo Brand 'cut their teeth'.

Living between France and Spain, since 1988 she has contributed regularly to a host of magazines in the United Kingdom and world-wide, including The Sunday Times S.A., Harpers HOT, Spanish Homes magazine, Viva Espăna, French magazine, Living France, International Living, Luxury Home Design, Expat Telegraph, Design & Architecture and many more. She is a syndicated author on the highly acclaimed travel website www.intelligence.net.

Her 'Notes from the Pueblo' column in 'Everything Spain' magazine received acclaim. She writes a regular 'weekend break' slot for Spanish Homes magazine.Her latest book, 'Crossing the Loire' is a wicked, witty - and sometimes worrying - take on moving to rural France.

Main professional activities

Full time Freelance

Memberships

NWU (USA)

Awards

Most recent publications

French magazine, Living France Everything Spain, Spanish Homes, Viva Espana, La Vie Outremanche, Design & Architecture USA, Hobby Farms, USA, Houseboat Magazine, USA, Meeting Planners, USA, Sunday Times Travel and Food S.A.

Other important publications

Areas of particular interest or expertise

Bilingual in French, proficient in Spanish and German and totally au fait with most aspects of French and Spanish life, Brit-born freelance Heidi Fuller-love travels widely in Europe and writes features on travel, food and lifestyle topics. "Flair and fun are my literary leit-motifs," she comments.

Other relevant information

RUIN WITH A VIEW EXTRACT FROM COLUMN FOR EVERYTHING SPAIN MAGAZINE, UK. Corumbela is the tiny pueblo where I've elected my (second) home - or perhaps that should be 'perch'? According to Pedro (the builder who lives two doors down and whose house tiled from top to bottom leaves me breathless with admiration) Corumbela means ' white dove' and way up in the cloud-wrapped Spanish Sierras this petite village surges out of the mountainside like some precious bird. If you grew a pair of wings you could soar up yourself and see the pueblo careering down the side of the Sierra Almijara’s twisted knuckles like wax from a candle that’s dripped here for centuries. Surrounding it you’d make out a frothy sea of olive and avocado groves, the peeled trunks of Eucalyptus, bunches of muscatel grapes used to make the sherry-sweet Competa wine and an occasional sharp-toothed Agave throwing out a desperate flower spike before crumpling at the feet of it’s heartless offspring. This is Corumbela: a diminutive pueblo blanco in the heart of the Axarquia. No cars can enter the narrow streets, no backfiring motorbikes either. Only mules are foolhardy enough to clatter their dainty hooves through this white-washed vertical labyrinth; only goats are hard-headed enough to skip to its peak and as for the fish vendor who plies his bacalao through every other Andalusian village, you can hear him for miles around groaning at the sight of our slopes.