Lisa Grainger

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Deputy and Travel Editor, Times LUXX, The Times
Writer and Editor, Freelance

London

Travel, United Kingdom

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Covers: Travel - particularly great journeys with lovely places to stay

Doesn't Cover: Special offers, entertainment, sales, children's holidays

Traveller. African. Londoner. Cake-lover. Wine-drinker. Editor and writer who is never happier than in a remote wilderness under big skies.

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A Zimbabwe-born, London-living journalist - previously features director of Elle UK, acting deputy editor of Sunday Times Style, assistant editor on The Times Weekend and part-time current deputy editor of the Telegraph's Ultratravel magazine.
She has driven around America in a clapped-out Chev, canoed the Zambezi, joined adventurers finding the source of The Nile, done the Cresta Run twice - and spent three months hiking southern Africa collecting the ancient myths and legends of African trib…

Lisa Grainger’s Journalist Portfolio

Safari in style in Botswana's wild heart

Perhaps the bull was in musth, the male elephant equivalent of PMT, which would make him even more testostero…

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Is the Newt hotel in Somerset Britain's coolest new place to stay?

It's the sound of pealing laughter that makes me retrace my steps into the gardens that front Somerset's hipp…

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Komodo Island: set sail for dragons

On the walls of the admissions office in Loh Buaya, on Rinca Island, splatters of blood on a wall attest to t…

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Queensland's hideaway hotels and lavish retreats

If I close my eyes and think of Australia's north-east region, what floods into my brain is colour. The lurid…

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Somewhere for the weekend: Cape Town

Just one sleep is all it takes to get to Cape Town: a 12-hour overnight flight. And at the end of it, no jet …

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Articles

Why Mozambique is Africa's rising tourism star

Jul 24, 2026 |

By Lisa Grainger

| Condé Nast Traveller (Middle East)

I look out from my sunlounger, flanked by a wall of dazzling fuchsia bougainvillea and surrounded by combed sand the colour of flour. In the salty breeze, the sweet smell of freshly baked croissants drifts across from a nearby veranda. On the immaculately mowed lawns below, a waiter is taking down fairy lights, strung between palm trees for last night’s seafood barbecue.

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Wilderness Magashi Peninsula

Apr 23, 2026 |

By Lisa Grainger

| Condé Nast Traveler Spain

Ruanda es famosa por sus gorilas de montaña, pero no se conocen tanto los ejemplares de los Big Five en este parque anexo a la frontera con Tanzania. Al norte del parque está Wilderness Magashi Peninsula, el único lodge de lujo dentro de una concesión privada de 60 kilómetros cuadrados.

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Mozambique's Moment In The Sun

Feb 10, 2026 |

By Lisa Grainger

| Flipboard

2026 is setting up to be a monumental year for the city of Detroit following the election of the city’s first female mayor along with the openings of …

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Trainee on The Star in Johannesburg; I was sent out on to the streets during the apartheid era and learnt pretty quickly.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. I learnt on one. My first job was on one. When I started at The Times, several columnists delivered their copy using one.

How is social media changing news?

It gives previously unverified people a platform - giving rise to fake news - but also opens it up to anyone, thereby giving us more options.