Marie Barbieri last modified: September 10, 2010

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Name: Marie Barbieri
Professional title Travel writer and photographer
Address Adelaide
Australia
Telephone (day)
Telephone (evening)
Fax:
Mobile ++61 447 122712
E-mail barbieri_marie@yahoo.com.au
Website 1 www.mariebarbieri.weebly.com
Website 2 http://au.linkedin.com/in/mariebarbieri
Biography Freelancing for in-flight and international travel publications, UK-born travel writer and photographer, Marie Barbieri, has been planting footsteps across the globe for over 20 years. Now an Australian citizen, she continues to hop between hemispheres writing for UK and Australian magazines.

Marie has contributed to a diverse range of titles. Clients include: Silverkris, Jetstar, Islands and Paradise in-flight magazines, Wanderlust, Australia & New Zealand, Italia!, Luxury Travel & Style, Holidays for Couples, Arrivals + Departures, Great Walks, Fitness First and Stamford Life (the in-room publication of the Stamford Hotel group). She is also a regular complementary health columnist for Bicycling Australia.

Marie spent several years living, working and travelling in Australia before becoming a citizen. She has an in-depth knowledge of the country’s east coast, particularly in and around Sydney, where she lived before finally settling in Adelaide. She now devotes most of her time to freelance projects within South Australia, as well as completing assignments on subjects within the other states.

Marie has also explored New Zealand's North Island (particularly the Bay of Islands and Rotorua), the east and west coasts of America (particularly San Francisco), the Caribbean islands of Anguilla, Barbados and Aruba, the Greek islands of Amorgos, Koufonissi, Mykonos, Santorini, Crete and Paxos, Athens, the Italian regions of Parma, Piacenza, Pavia, Lake Garda and Capri, France's Verdon Gorge and the Azorean island of Sao Miguel.

Recent Australian travels have had Marie rambling across Kangaroo Island, cycling the Gold Coast, hiking the Flinders Ranges, wining and dining in the delectable Barossa Valley and exploring the isolated wilderness of Tasmania's Bay of Fires region.

Upcoming travel plans will take Marie to the colours, temperatures and curvatures of South Australia's Clare Valley, Eyre Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula and Fleurieu Peninsula, as well as the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park in NSW.

Also a qualified complementary therapist and nutritionist who ran her own therapy business in the UK, Marie continues to write in the field of health and natural therapies. Health publications she has contributed to include: Nature & Health, Yoga Magazine, Today's Therapist International Trade Journal and Massage Magazine.

Marie has an extensive photography archive and can provide professional, high-resolution images. She is now available to discuss feature or photography assignments, including words/pictures packages on any of the above subjects.
Main professional activities Contributing regularly to UK and Australian publications with nature-based and activity-based features and photography.
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Awards In 2004 Marie won first prize in Greece magazine's national travel-writing competition with her winning piece on the island of Mykonos: 'Painting the Town White'.
Most recent publications Luxury Travel & Style, Holidays for Couples, Australia & New Zealand, Paradise in-flight magazine, Islands in-flight magazine and Jetstar in-flight magazine. Marie is also a regular columnist for Bicycling Australia.
Other important publications Wanderlust, Stamford Life (in-room publication for guests of the Stamford hotel group), Great Walks, Italia!, To Portugal, Fitness First and Arrivals + Departures.
Areas of particular interest or expertise Marie specialises on destinations within Australia, Italy and the Greek Islands.

She enjoys bush-walking, activity holidays, the natural outdoors cruising, health spas and international cuisine.

As a qualified complementary therapist, she can also provide freelance writing on health and complementary therapies. Marie ran her own successful therapy business for over five years prior to her move to Australia contributing articles to Today's Therapist International Trade Journal, Yoga magazine, Nature & Health (Australia) and Massage magazine (US).
Other relevant information Marie is now available to discuss future commissions for features or photography assignments.

As an experienced photographer, Marie can provide complete words and pictures packages, or can offer generic and stock photography from her extensive archives.