About Me | Katie Ackerley

Hi, I’m Katie Ackerley, a 28 year old travel marketer and photographer from the Wirral (near Liverpool) who is currently living in Manchester, UK. I work full time at the World Travel and Tourism Council and have become a pro at travelling around my 9-5. After visiting over 30 countries around my full time job, I wanted to share my tips and tricks so you can do the same!

Fun Facts

1. I started blogging because I felt like it was mean to subject my housemates to endless rants and sarcasm when I could, in fact, be inflicting that pain on the whole of the internet instead. I was tired of editors always telling me I had to be positive in my reviews. Positivity often isn’t amusing. That was back when I was working as a music critic, before I realised I don’t actually know that many words to describe music.
2. I play Ultimate Frisbee, sometimes for Great Britain. It sounds awful but it’s pretty fun, if you like driving to a different city every weekend and throwing around a piece of plastic, which incidentally I do. Or at least I like the people I do it with.
3. I’m love loving things! I’ve travelled to California to watch a tennis tournament, New York to see the original cast of my favourite show and sat in traffic for 3 hours in Colombia to see The Killers. My newest obsession is F1 so hopefully you’ll see me at a track soon!
4. I don’t like sad or scary movies. Sad and scared are both negative emotions and I have no idea why people make themselves feel that way on purpose.
5. I sometimes dream in cartoon. Cartoon me is just as ridiculous as actual me.
6. I’m terrified of fish because they can breathe underwater so I’m scared they’ll beat me in an ocean battle.
7. I wrote my university dissertation thesis on Disney movies. Yes I did a real degree.

Contact Me!

Email: katieackerley95@googlemail.com

Instagram: RealWorldRunaway

I’m always happy to talk to brands and bloggers about collaborations and PR opportunities. Check out my work with me page to see some previous projects.

Katie x