Turtle Bunbury

Writer and Historian

 
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Turtle was selected as Travel Extra Longhaul Journalist of the Year at Holiday World 2006. The prize was presented in Dublin's RDS by James Malone, President of the Irish Travel Agents Association, and was awarded for an article Turtle composed on Sri Lanka ten months after the tsunami for Abroad Magazine.

His 2006 book, 'Living in Sri Lanka', is a collaboration with Irish photographer James Fennell. Published by Thames & Hudson and launched in March 2006, the book received widespread attention for its positive portrayal of post-tsunami Sri Lanka. It was declared "Book of the Month" by The Essential KBB, "The Hot Read" by In Style and one of the three "Hot Summer Reads" by Elle Decoration. The Financial Times, The Scotsman, The Independent, House & Garden, The Irish Times, International Homes Magazine, Image Interiors and The White Book were amongst other major players to give their full support to the book.

Turtle is a frequent contributor to Abroad and Cara magazines and his travel stories have appeared in Vogue Living, The New York Post, The Irish Times, The Australian, NWA World Traveler, and the Sunday Independent.

He is also a frequent reviewers for the Alastair Sawdays' "Special Places to Stay in Ireland" Guidebooks.

It is now twenty years since Turtle joined the incorrigible Tim Slingsby on a 11 month tour of the world that saw them drive coast to coast across the USA, master poker faces in Hawaii, chase sheep in New Zealand, harvest cotton in Australia and battle the waves in Malaysia and Thailand. That was 1990. Six years later, Turtle moved to Hong Kong, becoming a regular visitor to the wilds of South East Asia. In recent years he has accompanied James Fennell on photographic assignments to Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mexico, Sri Lanka and the Czech Republic. In 2009, he published stories on his adventures in Sicily and Nova Scotia. 2010 sees a focus on Ireland, with Belfast and the Aran Islands to the fore, while small family getaways like Gozo and Monaco also grab his attention.

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