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Laura Hall

(She/Her)
  • Contributor, Freelance
  • Founder, Studio Blackbird
  • Contributing Writer, Time Out
  • None, BBC News - Current Affairs, Freelancers
  • None, Freelance, Time Out
Copenhagen
As seen in: Time Out, Bottom Line, Medium, MSN, Yahoo Life, BBC, BBC Travel, MSN UK, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), Yahoo Canada and
Covers:  Scandinavia, travel, culture, nature, sustainable travel, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, family travel, lifestyle, design, swimming, books, art
Doesn't Cover: sport (except swimming)
Travel writer in Scandinavia. A bit obsessed with the Arctic BBC Travel, Kinfolk, Guardian, Vogue, Time Out. hellolaurahall.com | hejlaurahall@gmail.com

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Laura Hall’s Biography

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Experienced senior freelance travel journalist and editor based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Laura specialises in writing about Scandinavia and the Nordics for titles including Kinfolk, BBC Travel, Sunday Times, Imagine 5, The Guardian, and The Observer.

Author of The Year I Lay My Head In Water, a memoir of swimming and Scandinavia. Also: TimeOut Copenhagen, Footprint Reykjavik and One Day, So Many Ways, a children’s book about how life is lived around the world.

She’s always looking for interes…

Laura Hall’s Journalist Portfolio

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The chefs reviving the Arctic's forgotten food

The chefs reviving the Arctic's forgotten food

It is appropriate that I am on a boat in South Greenland when I try my first mouthful of fermented seal blubb…

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Islands

Islands

Join Kinfolk on a journey off the beaten track, to islands big and small, in this collection of 18 new travel…

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Discovering Nørrebro with Rune Glifberg and the BMW iX1| BMW.com

Discovering Nørrebro with Rune Glifberg and the BMW iX1| BMW.com

Copenhagen is a very liveable city: it feels clean and green and active," he said, looking out of the window …

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Alchemist: Is this the world's most creative restaurant?

Alchemist: Is this the world's most creative restaurant?

From the moment the heavy bronze doors swing open, inviting you in from a rough, post-industrial street to a …

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5 architectural gems for a design-filled weekend in Copenhagen

5 architectural gems for a design-filled weekend in Copenhagen

As Copenhagen becomes the 2023 UNESCO World Architecture Capital, we take a tour of the city's top architectu…

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Sauna like a Scandi: 25 dreamy winter retreats

Sauna like a Scandi: 25 dreamy winter retreats

As anyone who has stood on a frozen railway platform as "Cancelled" flickers across the departures and arriva…

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Articles

I tested AI glasses in Paris. Here’s what they got wrong

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By Laura Hall
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Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Wearable AI can help travellers navigate cities, translate menus and fundamentally transform travel. But a weekend in Paris showed me the trade-offs behind the convenience. In Paris, I find myself standing beneath the Eiffel Tower having an argument with my glasses about how tall it is. The first time I ask, the answer comes back as 330m. A few minutes later, I try again.
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I tested AI glasses in Paris. Here’s what they got wrong

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By Laura Hall
| Flipboard
5 hours ago Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire following the successful public listing of SpaceX. The company's massive IPO raised $75 billion and significantly boosted its valuation, while a sharp rise in its share price further increased Musk's wealth beyond the $1 trillion mark. Despite …
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Inside the 'darecation': Why travellers are choosing holidays that hurt

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By Laura Hall
| BBC Travel
20 minutes ago Laura Hall Getty Images Forget relaxing on holiday; more travellers opting for physically punishing adventures in some of the world’s toughest places. For Sara Storey, the World's Highest Marathon offered a chance to do something nobody had attempted before. "I've done quite a few ultramarathons and multi-day races, some of them quite tough, but I'd never experienced an event where so much effort was required even to get to the start," she said.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Assistant editor, Footprint Books, editing travel guides for places as diverse as Thailand, South America and Tallinn.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

No! I’m not that old :)

How is social media changing news?

I think it makes it harder to contextualise and understand. I’m old school about it - I get news from proper news outlets still.

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