She was selected to contribute articles to the following travel focus, compilation books: To Vietnam with Love To Asia with Love and Travelers Tales from Heaven and Hell. She is author of the first edition of Insight Guides: Hanoi and Northern Vietnam Pocket Guide and co-author of the first edition Inside Guides: Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City Smart Guide. Plus, in-flight magazines for airlines, such as Qantas, Singapore, Thai, and Cathay Pacific. Her work has been published in countless international publications and the list is so extensive, I’ll just mention a few here: Wall Street Journal Asia, National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast Traveler UK and India, Tatler UK and Indonesia, Australia Gourmet Traveler. Samantha has contributed and updated travel guidebooks such as Frommer’s, Fodors, Rough Guides and Insight Guides, mainly on Vietnam. With birthdays a day apart, and one year between us and a friendship that has spanned several decades, over the years, we kept in touch first via handwritten letters, then email and more recently, I’ve been tracking Samantha’s Asian adventures on LinkedIn, where she posts links to her blog, The Jaded Empress Chronicles. Samantha went on to work another couple of ski seasons in France and Italy and four summer seasons in Spain and Greece. Before leaving London, she was a travel industry professional, starting out with seasonal work in Europe, where we met when we both worked for a British ski company in Courcheval, in the French Alps. Samantha left London, where she’s from, in 1998, since then she’s been a full-time freelance travel and lifestyle writer, based in Asia Pacific, including three years in Sydney, Australia followed by five years in Hanoi and five years in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, eight years in Bali, Indonesia, relocating back to Ho Chi Minh City in 2018 where she’s currently based. Hello Listeners and welcome to Episode 6 of Women Who Walk. You can find show notes to each episode and my books on my website,. And just as I did for the book here, I’ll be interviewing and unpacking the journeys of impressive, Intrepid women who’ve made multiple international moves for work, for adventure, for love, for freedom. I’m Louise Ross writer and author of Women Who Walk the book, the inspiration for this podcast. Louise: Hello, welcome to Women Who Walk. Samantha’s blog is The Jaded Empress Chronicles And she contributed to the travel focus, compilation books: To Vietnam with Love To Asia with Love and Travelers Tales from Heaven and Hell. Her work has been published in countless international publications and in-flight airline magazines. She is a prolific and accomplished travel writer, having contributed and updated travel guidebooks such as Frommer’s, Fodors, Rough Guides and Insight Guides, mainly on Vietnam. Asia-Pacific Travel & Lifestyle writer, Samantha Coomber, talks about working in Vietnam and Indonesia for the past 19 years and living the “Anthony Bourdain experience from a woman’s perspective.” Samantha left London in 1998, since then she’s been based in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and Bali.
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