Celeste Mitchell

Hi there! I'm a freelance travel journalist, author and professional dreamer based in Queensland, Australia.

 
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Like most girls growing up in the ‘90s, I wanted Catriona' Rowntree’s job…

As a journalist and media professional with two decades of experience, Celeste Mitchell is adept at penning prose that will leave you daydreaming, laughing, and clicking on the 'book now' button.

While she's crisscrossed the globe writing for Escape, Australian Traveller, Explore, Travel + Luxury (The Australian), Broadsheet, QANTAS, Virgin Australia and more, she favours slow and sustainable travel.

In 2018, along with 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.

 
 

Selected Work

 
 

The Queensland hotel brought back from the brink

Despite the destructive forces of nature and looters, this tropical hideaway has been miraculously revived

Travel + Luxury

Schooner and a sleepover

They've always been the best place to grab some grub, but Aussie pubs are now the hottest place to spend the night, too

Explore

Beyond the blue

There’s more than meets the eye in Esperance

ESCAPE

Treading softly

Hiking Western Australia's Cape to Cape track with gourmet guides is a lesson in sustainable luxury, and a tasty one at that

Australian Traveller

Regeneration island

With the much-anticipated reopening of Southern Ocean Lodge, increased flights, and a slew of sustainable development, South Australia's Kangaroo Island is bouncing back with confidence

Australian Traveller

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