Welcome

Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you will stay a while, enjoy my photographs and read about some of my adventures.

A little bit about me…
Having originally studied Zoology and Psychology at Bristol University I went back to college as a mature student to study graphic design.

This led me to working in the travel industry and my work now also includes photography and writing which I love.

Working for the first nine years with The Individual Travellers Company (which included Vacanze in Italia) and since 2005 for Serenity Holidays (which includes The Gambia Experience and Corsican Places amongst others) I have had the opportunity to visit many beautiful countries.

In 2007, following a holiday to The Gambia, West Africa, I helped organise a music festival to raise money for mosquito nets for young children there. This was such a success we formed the community group ‘Nyodema’ (which means ‘helping each other’ in Mandinka) celebrating world music and arts, promoting multicultural awareness and supporting children’s health and education projects in The Gambia. What started off as a one-off event has become an annual world music and arts festival plus we now also hold weekly singing and West African drumming workshops. I enjoy performing with the Nyodema Drummers and the Nyodema World Community Choir.

My photography…
I’ve loved photography ever since I was given my first camera at the age of ten.
I’ve been lucky enough to have visited many interesting places on photographic assignments including France, Italy, Corsica, Cape Verde, Senegal and The Gambia.
My photographs have been published in numerous magazines and national newspapers and have been exhibited at The Royal Photographic Society, Bath.

Travel with Kat…
I have been writing for various websites and a couple of small magazines for a number of years now and have brought these articles together to start my own blog. ‘Travel with Kat’ began in September 2011. Some of my posts I have backdated to when they were originally written.

Through this blog I hope to share with you my joy of discovering new lands, cultures and friends whether exploring Britain or on my travels many miles away.

You can contact me by leaving a comment or by email: travelwithkat@rocketmail.com

Please note that some of the articles featured here I originally wrote for Serenity Holidays and have been reproduced with their permission, however, this is a personal blog and should not be taken as the opinion of Serenity Holidays or any of its subsidiaries.

Copyright notice: All written and photographic content in this blog is the work of Kathryn Burrington unless otherwise stated. All the contents of this blog is covered by copyright and must not be reproduced in any other format without prior permission of the author.

(Photographs of myself are courtesy of various friends including Adam, Shelagh and Neill.)

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