About
Abigail King is a British journalist and photographer who writes about travel for print and online publications and biomedical science for academic journals. She is also prominent in blogging and social media.
Published Work
Her work has appeared in Lonely Planet, the BBC, National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel, France Today, easyJet Traveller, CNN Go, Lonely Planet, Desert Leaf, Travel Intelligence, Most Wanted, the Huffington Post, Travel Daily UK, Critical Care, the British Medical Journal and more.
Education
Abigail King read Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge before completing her medical training at Imperial College, London. She then worked as a hospital doctor in Emergency Medicine from 2002 to 2008. Abigail also studied Extreme Medicine & Antarctica at the Plymouth base and Wilderness Medicine at Oxford University.
Languages
She is a native English speaker and can interview sources in French. She spends half of her time in Spain and her Spanish is coming along nicely.
Travel & Living Abroad
Abigail King spent two months in Moshi, Tanzania, working with children in the local hospital, KCMC. She lived in southwest France for over a year and now spends half of her time in Spain.
Altogether, Abigail King has travelled to: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey, the Netherlands, Croatia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Andorra, Belgium, Oman, Saudi Arabia, India, China, Japan, Morocco, Egypt, Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Mexico, the United States of America, Canada, Brazil, Cuba, Barbados, Jamaica, Australia, Thailand, Cambodia & Vietnam.
Professional Organisations
British Guild of Travel Writers, National Union of Journalists, Travel Writers UK
References: available on request
