Gilly Pickup is a journalist and author. She writes about travel and cruise, wellbeing, food, health, history, art and culture, wildlife, arts, gardens and the paranormal for publications such as the Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, The Scotsman, Woman's Own, Discover Britain, My Weekly and Sainsbury's Magazine. Extracts of her work are available at www.gillypickup.co.uk. She is also the author of The A-Z of Curious London.