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FEATURES FOR INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS

Travel

• The Times
• The Wall Street Journal
• Diners Club magazine (Signature)
• Executive Travel
• Family Circle

WORK IN SPAIN

2005-2011 The Marbella Lifestyle

Associate Editor, Essential Marbella magazine. Writing 12 articles monthly for the Costa del Sol’s favourite lifestyle magazine.

Work Examples (click pink hypertext to read) © Essential Marbella magazine:

Travel

• Doñana – Europe’s Last Wilderness
• Sevilla: A Feast of Flamenco
• Romantic Retreats for Mr & Mrs Smith

Lifestyle

• Granada Science Park: Where Learning is Child’s Play
• Pueblo Inglés: The Talking Olympics

Dining/Reviews

• Mil Milagros: Another Dani García Miracle in Marbella
• Andalucía’s Hotel Schools: A Class Act

Business

• Panorama: Celebrating 40 Years in Marbella

Property/Décor

• Patricia Darch Interiors: Putting on the Style

Humour

• Bel’s Blog: Silly Season

Profiles

• Parfitt Chemistry: Status Quo’s Rick Parfitt & his wife Lyndsay in Spain
• Max Clifford: MAXimising Marbella

Culture 

• 2016: A Capital Year for Spain (Winner of the Costa Press Club Communicator Prize 2009)

2004-2005 The Dating Game

Consultant Editor, España Match, the Costa del Sol’s first micro-magazine for dating.

2002-2004 The Spanish Connection

Editor, The Reporter. Responsible for the editorial content and direction of this popular monthly magazine, billed The Spanish Connection for Ex-pats, with a Málaga-to-Gibraltar distribution.

1999-2002 Ab Fab España

Associate Editor, Absolute Marbella. Staff feature writer for this glossy monthly lifestyle magazine.

Freelance Writer Spain

Features for local magazines including Lookout, The Reporter, Costa del Sol News, Costa Blanca News and the Euro Weekly where Belinda’s weekly humour column, Rebecca Ridgeway: A Woman’s View, developed a cult following. Click the pink link to read her irreverent take on Marbella’s renowned Summer Season.

Copywriting projects for private clients including Ocean Village, Gibraltar; the Lería Property Group, Benalmádena; Atlas Build, Marbella; AV Premium, Sotogrande; and others.

1992-1998 SUNNY SPAIN, THE EARLY YEARS
Following an interview (see below) for the Daily Express with Ken Brown – then editor of Spain’s much-loved glossy expat magazine, Lookout – Belinda relocated to the Costa Blanca, combining freelance writing with running a restaurant. Read Eldorado Lives! – her colourful feature on the pleasures and pitfalls of expat life, published in Lookout magazine.

WORK IN THE UK

1990-1992 And So To Fleet Street

Feature Writer/TV Critic/Recruitment Section Editor for the Daily Express, one of Britain’s leading national tabloid newspapers.

1983-1990 Globe-Trotting Travel Writer

Assistant Editor of Travel Weekly, the British trade newspaper, writing and commissioning features on the travel industry from five continents.

1981-1983 Marketing Maven

Marketing Manager for the Sussex-based Panorama travel agency/tour operator, responsible for advertising, PR, brochure & AV production, trade seminars and press trips.

1974-1981 Cub Reporter to Showbiz Editor

Apprenticeship with the Evening Argus (Sussex) daily newspaper as a news reporter/feature writer, followed by promotion to Film and Theatre Critic.

1973-74 Journalist in Training

One-year National Council for the Training of Journalists Course at Portsmouth Technical College. Famous alumni include editor Piers Morgan and broadcaster Anna Botting.

1966-73 An Education

St. Mary’s Hall, Brighton. Qualifications: 9 O-Levels, 3 A-Levels (English, History, French).

Languages: Spanish, French