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

I'm the author of Bradt's Inner Hebrides (1st and 2nd editions); Cicerone's Short Walks in the Trossachs and Walking Rùm and the Small Isles (the latter with Peter Edwards); and for Frommer's, an updated edition of Iceland as well as three chapters of their England and Scotland guide. I'm also currently working on a hiking guidebook to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. On top of all this, I 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.

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 Bluesky, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and various other places under the handle @featherytravels.