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The Travelling Light

Nomadic freelancer + travel blogger seeking to in the world through special, secret, soul-filled places around the world.

Sharing my inner/outer travels + free conscious travel guides on the site. The Travelling Light is finding the light around the world, looking up, down and around, wandering down tiny laneways, behind closed doors, up winding staircases, into the quiet corner amongst the throngs when you travel. This is an edited collection of special, sometimes secret, places to visit around the world. It's only

small because it's just me, Katie, travelling, visiting, photographing and putting it all together. And because I think the best way to see the world, and the things in it, is to begin with a few good hints and foundations and follow your own way from there. These are some beginnings for your journeys, so you can provide your own endings. www.thetravellinglight.com

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16/02/2026

On one of my last days in Ubud, weaving through town on my scooter, I stumbled upon a temple ceremony. Hundreds of people sat gathered on the ground around the village temple, dressed in their finest ceremonial lace.

I raced home to grab my camera and hurried back, only just catching the tail end as everyone began to pack up and head home, streaming past me and my lens in what felt very much like a procession.

Women in delicate, coloured lace and batik outfits balanced baskets of fruit and offerings on their heads. I could hardly believe what I was witnessing. It was one of the most beautiful scenes I’ve seen on the road.

In case you missed it, last week I published my first ever Ubud guide, hoping to help you find a slower, more grounded, authentic Ubud through this collection of places I’ve come to know over decades, chosen with care for ownership, cultural preservation, and the people who live and work here.

This one’s free to read, let me know your thoughts and if you’re heading over soon!

29/01/2026

Warmer days here in Italy seem a lifetime away… last shots on film from 2025 summer in Marche ✨ quiet days at home and sunset walks after the heat had melted away.

23/01/2026

Cortona, Tuscany in January, this beautiful fog often settles over the valley below this town where I spend a lot of time. It appears around sunset or you often notice it upon waking, before it dissipates.

Spending the whole week here this week, I love this quiet season in this place. When we go out for after-dinner walks with our dog the streets are so quiet. It’s definitely a mood.

These images, a mix of film and digital I’ve collected over the years in the winter season here.

I wrote about the January/February fog of creative freelancing in my latest letter, when it feels like the world is still in cocoon mode and client plans haven’t fully surfaced, when it’s easy to convince yourself the jobs and enquiries will never roll in again.

I use this quiet season to reflect on what I want for the year ahead, and for paid subs, I’ve rounded up all the tools I’ve developed/published over the past year to help you check-in and reset on different areas of your work or business as a creative, depending on what you need to focus on. You know where to find it 😉

13/01/2026

More pics from the sunniest, snowiest day last week in my town here in central Italy. The last image, captured from my bedroom window ✨.

The stars aligned to bring us a whole day and night of snowfall with below-zero temperatures allowing it all to settle over the town ❄️ it only happens once every few years here these days. I set out to capture the town waking up again when the sun came out after two days of empty streets.

12/01/2026

When the stars aligned to bring us a whole day and night of snowfall with below-zero temperatures allowing it all to settle and blanket the town ❄️ it only happens once every few years here these days. Set out to capture my town in Marche, Italy waking up and going out again after two days of empty streets on the clearest, sunniest day that followed.

17/12/2025

The simple joys of my favourite Tuscan town, Cortona, in summer, on 35mm film. Have fallen more and more in love with this place over the years where my Mum is based… could be a future base 🌞

20/11/2025

My list of natural thermal hot springs in Tuscany and beyond in Italy, free to read, is live now! It’s taken me 7 winters living in Italy to put this together, some are solid favourites I visit every year, some are still on my “to swim” list.

This would make for the most beautiful winter holiday in Tuscany, road tripping around from hot spring to hot spring ✨, visiting all the cute towns in between. That’s what I do every January to cheer myself up in the dark months anyway.

From fancy spa sanctuaries like to steamy pools in the middle of nature like Bagni San Filippo, natural healing warm waters flow from the earth to these very special spots.

I’ve also developed my own flame 🔥 emoji rating system ranking the hotness of the water, so important!

You know where to find it, details in Stories.

18/11/2025

A few favourite 35mm film captures from this summer around my home town in Marche, Italy 💛 beauty, beauty everywhere

13/11/2025

I rarely capture moments at home but when ❤️ was harvesting our moscato grapes last month to give to our friends making grape jam I couldn’t not… plus a basket of last summer produce from ’s glorious orto on my kitchen table 🙏🏻

10/11/2025

A few more from a summer shoot at the most beautiful Tuscan family villa with all the french antiques , outside Siena in Tuscany.

05/11/2025

My favourite icy cold wild river in Marche on film this summer ⛰️ from when Sally & Luke came to stay.

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