Like most girls growing up in Australia in the '90s, I wanted Catriona Rowntree's job ...
Travelling the world and getting paid to do it? Yep, that Getaway gig was the ultimate dream.
But once realising I would make a terrible hard-news television journalist halfway through university, and falling head over heels in love with magazines after a short work experience stint at CLEO magazine in Sydney, my path to features writing was set in stone.
After close to a decade of editing and writing about boy bands, puberty, dating, fashion and everything in between for some of Australia's top magazines, I took the leap into tourism PR and spent three years pitching and pimping Queensland out to Australia's best travel writers and bloggers.
In 2013 I said goodbye to the 9-5 to follow my dream of being a freelance travel writer and have been flitting around the world ever since.
In 2018, along with my two business partners, I launched slow and sustainable travel platform, Life Unhurried (lifeunhurried.com) and our first book, Life Unhurried, was published by Hardie Grant in September 2022.
AND NOW...
The (slightly) more professional version:
Celeste Mitchell is a freelance travel writer based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.
As a journalist and media professional with two decades of experience, Celeste is adept at penning prose that will leave you daydreaming, laughing, and clicking on the 'buy now' button.
While she's crisscrossed the globe writing for Escape, Australian Traveller, Jetstar, Travel + Luxury (The Australian), QANTAS, Virgin Australia and more, she favours slow and sustainable travel.
In 2018, along with her two business partners, Celeste launched slow travel and living platform Life Unhurried and in 2020 added the curated accommodation directory, Slow Stays – the official edit of the world's best slow and sustainable accommodation. Their hardcover coffee table book, Life Unhurried, was published by Hardie Grant in Sep 2022.
She is currently working on her second book.
