• Rosanne Turner
  • writing samples
    • Paarl Pleasures (Explore SA issue 27)
    • Articles on Samui for Siam Map
    • Active Cape Town (explore SA issue 28)
    • exploring the perfume island
    • Route 62 (Explore SA issue 28)
    • Transkei - A journey not just a destination
    • Cape Escape - For the Holland Herald
    • Hermanus - more than just whales
    • A Chef's Story -Margot Janse
    • Braving the Shark Alley
  • Travelling TEFL - finance your wanderlust!
  The Travelling Pen

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Writer's profile – Rosanne Turner

Rosanne Turner relocated to Thailand in 2010 from South Africa, where she was involved in the tourism industry, and co-owned several accommodation establishments. She has written for African and international publications including the Holland Herald (in-flight magazine of KLM), Explore Africa, Morning Calm (in-flight magazine of Air Korea), Sawasdee Magazine (Thai Airways in-flight magazine) as well as several websites such as gotravel24.com and travelintelligence.com. Examples of these articles can be found on www.travellingpen.com

For two years, Rosanne was the Ko Samui correspondent for www.travelfish.org, as she enjoyed sharing her discoveries of Samui after walking every snapshot-perfect beach, strenuous hill, coconut grove and enticing forgotten path in search of that memory-making beach bar or bungalow resort. Rosanne has scrutinised more than 100 resorts and hotels, and sampled countless Mojitos, fruit shakes and massaman curries in the name of research and in the quest to provide readers with sufficient information before embarking on their island adventure.  

From 2012 to 2014, Rosanne worked as a feature writer for the Siam Map Co, which produces the glossy 'Samui Holiday Magazine' as well as the 'Wining & Dining Guide' -- so the quest to discover all things Samui continued with print media, and with their popular website, www.samuiholiday.com 

The toughest part of being a writer and reviewer, must be spending nights at 5-star villas, complete with private chef. This is what Rosanne does for The Villa Guide, working her way through Samui's luxury villas and detailing the pros and cons, so you don't have to. All in a day's work!

Rosanne prefers to see the lighter side of life when travelling, viewing things from a different angle and appreciating the small details rather than the glaring obvious. She has not let her atrocious sense of direction deter her from exploring and her journeys have taken her through Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands, including Madagascar, Zanzibar, Tanzania and the Transkei as well as the Asian countries of Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Thailand, Malaysia and Bali, Indonesia.

Rosanne co-owns Samui TEFL (www.samuitefl.com) helping others with a wanderlust to finance their travels by teaching English as a foreign language in Asia and around the world. She also admits to being somewhat of a grammar nerd. She's recently opened an administrative office in the Garden Route town of Knysna, in South Africa, and travels between here and Koh Samui.

Life is not a journey to the grave, with the intention of arriving safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming 'WOW! what a ride!' Anonymous

Memberships: SAFREA (South African Freelancers' Association)
travelintelligence.com
travelwriters.com

Samples of my work can be viewed on this site.

Contact:
thetravellingpen@gmail.com
info@samuitefl.com
skype: thetravellingpen
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  • Rosanne Turner
  • writing samples
    • Paarl Pleasures (Explore SA issue 27)
    • Articles on Samui for Siam Map
    • Active Cape Town (explore SA issue 28)
    • exploring the perfume island
    • Route 62 (Explore SA issue 28)
    • Transkei - A journey not just a destination
    • Cape Escape - For the Holland Herald
    • Hermanus - more than just whales
    • A Chef's Story -Margot Janse
    • Braving the Shark Alley
  • Travelling TEFL - finance your wanderlust!
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