Carrie Riseley

Carrie grew up in Tasmania, Australia but spent her youth living in Melbourne, Japan and England. She has travelled to 46 countries to date, and kept a travel journal for every single one.

Carrie started doing this when, just before her first travelling experience at age 18, family members gave her an empty notebook to use as a travel journal. Carrie found she loved writing about what she was seeing and experiencing so much that she filled the notebook in only 3 weeks. She bought more notebooks, and just kept going.

Because Carrie's books were written in the moment as she was travelling - or, in the case of her second book Japan Unexpected, while she was living in and fully experiencing the culture of Japan - you'll feel like you were there

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