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Award winning travel writer specialising in travel throughout Europe


30+ years in publishing, editorial, and writing


+Work appears in national newspapers and magazines - print & online


+Author of Camping Road Trips UK (WINNER Travel Guide Book of the Year), Camping Road Trips France & Germany, The Camping Pocket Bible, Slow Travel: The Cotswolds, and This Is Not My Land


+Author/photographer of Cool Caravanning


+Co-author of Slow Travel: Yorkshire Dales & Slow Travel: North York Moors


+Member of the British Guild of Travel Writers & Society of Authors


Extensive expertise in...


Food & Farming, Sustainability, Countryside and Environment


Camping and caravanning, campervan touring, and campsites


The Cotswolds



Need an urgent feature? Recent & forthcoming research trips


  • Scotland
  • Italy 
  • Lithuania 
  • Germany 
  • France: Normandy, Burgundy, Auvergne, Dordogne, Drôme, Loire Valley, Brittany
  • Cotswolds & Worcestershire
  • Yorkshire Dales, Wolds, North York Moors
  • Cornwall & Devon
  • Malta
  • Spain & Portugal
  • Shropshire
  • Ireland: County Mayo
  • Luxembourg
  • Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, Norway)


contact me

Have a look at what editors, publishers and marketing managers have to say about my work

I look forward to seeing the pix, which should be glorious if your descriptions are anything to go by. I have never been to Jersey and am now inspired to go more than ever


Claudia Dowell, Features Editor, Future plc

what people say
A purple orchid growing in the grass

Need images?

I have a vast image library. My images are included in travel guides and websites, on double-page spreads plus front covers for magazines.

Extensive coverage of camping and campervan touring

images
The front cover of the book This Is Not My Land 30 years on a small Cotswolds farm

What's new?

This Is Not My Land

30 years on a Small Cotswolds Farm

A new nature writing and farming memoir that offers the ultimate in slow travel.

Publisher: Bradt Guides

ISBN: 9781804693476

Publishing date: 15th January 2026

"A gentle book" (Country Life)


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Inspire Global Media Awards 2026 Finalist for positive impact storytelling


What's new?

Inspire Global Media Awards 2026

 Finalist:

  • Consumer Magazine Feature of the Year (UK)  'Crossing the Border' in Camping & Caravanning
  • Consumer Magazine Feature of the Year (England) 'Gorge-ous days out in Shropshire' in Camping & Caravanning


Intrepid Times podcast with Caroline Mills

What's New?

 Have a listen to the Intrepid Times Travel Writing Podcast, with Caroline talking about slow travel, professional travel writing, and the term 'solastalgia'. You can listen to the podcast here (listening time 28 minutes).

What's new?


Slow Travel The Cotswolds (3rd edition)

Including Stratford-upon-Avon, Oxford and Bath

Now in its third edition

ISBN: 978-1804691717

Publishing date: 11th March 2024



Slow Travel The Cotswolds 3rd edition
The cover of a book about camping road trips in the uk.

What's new?

Camping Road Trips UK

A personal selection of 30 adventures with your campervan, motorhome or tent.



WINNER

TRAVEL GUIDEBOOK OF THE YEAR BRITISH GUILD OF TRAVEL WRITERS

A companion guide to Camping Road Trips: France & Germany

Camping Road Trips

Editorial photo-features


Samples of work

A marmot is standing on its hind legs in the grass.

On a Swiss Roll

Grand Tour of Switzerland

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A group of people are walking up a hill with a view of the sea.

St Patrick's Heights 

Soft adventure in  Mayo

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An aerial view of a church in Luxembourg surrounded by trees and a river

Luxembourg

Tiny Land, Big Fame

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Contact

Click the 'contact me' button to enquire about availability for commissions


Caroline Mills Travel Writer