Bio
Canadian journalist Laura Byrne Paquet specializes in travel, small business and health topics. In the travel area, she further specializes in ways people can "live like locals" while travelling--topics
Canadian journalist Laura Byrne Paquet specializes in travel, small business and health topics. In the travel area, she further specializes in ways people can "live like locals" while travelling--topics such as renting a self-catering apartment, meeting locals abroad and taking immersion language classes. (See blog at www.FacingTheStreet.blogspot.com and website at www.LaVidaLocal.com.) Laura has written 11 books and is a past president of the Travel Media Association of Canada.
Specialist areas
Offbeat travel, small business, health, women's interest