Lisa Rose Wright

In 2007 Lisa left a promising career as an ecologist catching protected reptiles and amphibians, and kissing frogs, to move to beautiful green Galicia in the remote northwest of Spain with her blue-eyed prince (who has since become her blue-eyed husband but that’s another story). She divides her time equally between growing her own food, helping to renovate a semi-derelict house (or actually two… but that’s another story too) and getting out and about to discover more of the stunningly beautiful area she calls home. Lisa is happiest outside in her huerta weeding, watching the antics of her chickens, in her kitchen cooking interesting recipes on her wood-burning range, or getting out to discover more of the world around us. Lisa is the author of six travelogue memoirs. The Writing Home trilogy, told through letters home to Lisa’s mum, is the story of her adventures moving to beautiful green Galicia, beginning with their first year renovating a 200-year-old stone ruin in Plum, Courgette & Green Bean Tart. A year later, in Tomato, Fig & Pumpkin Jelly, Lisa and her blue-eyed prince get married – eventually. And in Chestnut, Cherry & Kiwi Fruit Sponge, the intrepid pair renovate a second ruin, this time for Lisa's mum who moves to Galicia aged 83 and three-quarters. In the Travels Around series, Lisa invites her readers to visit her beautiful green Galicia in Pulpo, Pig & Peppers – travels around Galicia, and to follow her and hubby S, around the world; firstly on the trip of a lifetime in Bento Boxes, Boomerangs & Red Foxes, and then once more travelling down under, this time to New Zealand at the start of a pandemic which would rock the world. Hot Pools, Paua Shells & a Pandemic brings the reader full circle back to Lisa's beautiful green Galicia.