Inspiring Travel Writing from Heidi Fuller-Love
In a prior existence, freelance travel and lifestyle writer/photographer Heidi Fuller-love dragged bedraggled tour groups to far-flung places, led ghost-hunting trips round darkest London and ran a comedy cabaret venue in her spare time. Spooked by ornery tourists, cranky spirits and bad jokes she subsequently ran away to rural France and at an age when most sane women are getting to grips with nappies, took up writing.
Since then her eclectic and selective travel and lifestyle features and photos have appeared in a host of publications ranging from France, Living France, Spanish Homes magazine and Motor Caravan, to Luxury Home Design, The New York Post and Art and Antiques. Heidi Fuller-love's new book, "Crossing the Loire", is a wicked, witty - and sometimes worrying - account of moving to rural France in the 1980's - "a perfect antidote to Peter Mayle", is how one reader put it. Packed with twisted humour, sticky camembert and plumbing tales to make your hair stand on end, "Crossing the Loire" is the modern 'Clochemerle'. Check it out here.
Heidi Fuller-love is a member of the National Writer's Union (USA) and Writers and Photographers Unlimited (UK). She is also is the editor of www.eastcretemagazine.com
Since then her eclectic and selective travel and lifestyle features and photos have appeared in a host of publications ranging from France, Living France, Spanish Homes magazine and Motor Caravan, to Luxury Home Design, The New York Post and Art and Antiques. Heidi Fuller-love's new book, "Crossing the Loire", is a wicked, witty - and sometimes worrying - account of moving to rural France in the 1980's - "a perfect antidote to Peter Mayle", is how one reader put it. Packed with twisted humour, sticky camembert and plumbing tales to make your hair stand on end, "Crossing the Loire" is the modern 'Clochemerle'. Check it out here.
Heidi Fuller-love is a member of the National Writer's Union (USA) and Writers and Photographers Unlimited (UK). She is also is the editor of www.eastcretemagazine.com
Articles by Heidi Fuller-Love
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Re of Light
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Heidi Fuller-Love
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France
Victim of capricious maritime monopolies and moneyed nobles - not to mention winds and tides - Ré has always been an isolated isle. Even a few decades ago this was still a dozy atoll where Fishermen with sun-pleated faces wheeled their wiry...
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Weekend in Istanbul
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Heidi Fuller-Love
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Turkey
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Marmara
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Istanbul
Aromas of spice and shoe polish, sights of dazzling ceramics and superb architecture, flavours of loukoum and köfte, touch of soft silks and the sound of boats chugging along the Bosphorus - Istanbul is a city that is guaranteed to keep your...
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Art of Glass
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Heidi Fuller-Love
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Gibraltar
Deluxe beacon to every Rock tour and chic shopping siren for the countless cruise ships which sashay into the country’s dolphin-filled harbour, Gibraltar Crystal was set up in 1995 by long-time friends and forever glass lovers, Stuart and...
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A Hedonist Weekend in Poitiers
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Heidi Fuller-Love
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France
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Poitou-Charentes
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Poitiers
2000 years of history has given this citadel city 78 protected historic monuments, tons of medieval streets and an unmentionable number of half timbered houses - but Poitiers isn’t just a passe paradise. With 30,000 students attending the...
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Perfect Ten Limoges
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Heidi Fuller-Love
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France
1. Tram way Founded as Augustoritum by the Romans, around 10 BC Limoges mushroomed across seven hills on the right bank of the River Vienne to become the capital of the leafy, cow-tracked Limousin department. Despite being set at the core of a grid...
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Discovering Charente-Limousine
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Heidi Fuller-Love
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France
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Charente-Limousine
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Etagnac
Moulded by the Vienne river, which weaves it’s turbulent blue thread through lush green countryside, the little-known Charente-Limousine region of southwest France boasts a micro climate that gives a thousand more sunshine hours than Paris, lakes...
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What a Bore
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Heidi Fuller-Love
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France
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Dordogne
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Libourne
It's September and despite the melancholy of rusted autumn leaves the sleepy town of Saint Pardon in the French department of Dordogne is throbbing like unexploded dynamite. Outside the town's only café (already breathing later-evening odours of...
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Santander Out of Season
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Heidi Fuller-Love
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Spain
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Basque Country
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Santander
Swish seaside resort for the Spanish aristocracy at the beginning of the 20th century, Santander's cool climate means it will never make it to the top of the sun-seeker/beach-lovers holiday list. But its bustling fishing quarter, fascinating museums...
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Jet-set Town Signed Signac
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Heidi Fuller-Love
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France
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Riviera Cote d'Azur
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St Tropez
Matisse’s pal, Signac, was so wowed when he sailed into Saint Tropez on a sunny day way back in the 1880’s that he depicted the port with explosive dots of color. More than a century later I cruise into this legendary bay and wish I’d invented...
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Dining with the Flintstones
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Heidi Fuller-Love
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Spain
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Andalucia (Granada)
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Guadix
I met Sam three years ago in Corsica, where he owned a luxury beach resort. So when he called me recently and bellowed down the phone, "We've moved to Spain. Come and have lunch with the Flintstones of Guadix," I thought he'd taken too much of that...