Who am I and what on Earth is this?!

My name is Katie Featherstone. I'm a freelance writer, predominantly (it seems) working on guidebooks. I'm the author of Bradt's Inner Hebrides (1st and 2nd editions); Cicerone's Short Walks in the Trossachs; three chapters of Frommer's England and Scotland; and several other hiking or travel guidebooks yet to be released. I also regularly contribute hiking routes for Trail, and have previously worked for the Guardian, Independent, TGO Magazine, Hidden Europe, Walk Highlands, Scottish Islands Explorer, and Coast.

For the last five years, I've been exclusively writing about Scotland and Iceland.

On this website, you will find an awkward mixture of hiking instruction manuals, somewhat creative writing, and decade-old travel blog posts. The most useful page is my annually updated Laugavegur instruction manual, which you should read before hiking the route for the first time.

You can also find me on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and various other places under the handle @featherytravels.