Elisabeth has had a number of careers - only the latest of which is "writer," she has also been a geologist and a computer geek, but travel has always been Elisabeth's passion. Her first trip was a family cruise to the Canary Islands and Morocco, but she doesn't remember much, she was only four! The longest trip of her childhood was when her family emigrated from England to New Zealand, by sea, in the days when long-haul was six weeks on a boat, not 24 hours on a plane. Aged seven, she fell in love with travel on that trip, although, to this day she still gets sea-sick! Over the next 40-plus y...