Katharine Sohn is a travel and lifestyle writer, photographer and creative consultant. During the summer of 2023, she spent a few months on the Cycladic island of Andros in Greece creating, crafting and cooking at hospitality brand Mèlisses. You can normally find her between the Cotswolds and East London.
She has written for both print and digital spaces of Condé Nast Traveller and helped run and successfully launch the social channels and newsletter at Loupe UK, a new site from ex-Condé Nast Traveller editors. She is an avid food and interiors photographer, content creator and creative consultant. Katharine also loves to plan events from spring weddings, supper clubs and special parties.
Katharine runs her travel tips and musings newsletter Cherry Press – a space filled with tidbits about life in the Cotswolds, insider guides, industry interviews, recipes and Oxfordshire murmurings.
Half the fun of going away is the research. Finding the tables-to-book, the coolest hotel, and that teeny tiny shop that sells the prettiest handmade slippers. A lot of it is combing through endless tabs, the odd website and Instagram locations – but I’ve always loved this part, spending the time collating, collecting and curating the destinations I’ve been to and want to go. Searching through those feeds, the magazine spreads, my favourite publishers, sites and brands who are already in-the-know. It’s where the joy lies.
This is where Cherry Press comes in. It’s not like an old-fashioned travel planner, but rather a source of inspiration for the best insider spots – the under-the-radar delis, the hotel with brilliant design and the café that also whips up a perfect Negroni for five euros. This is also where I’ve collated my best countryside stories – from the pubs to eat at, the inns to sleep in, the walks to get mucky on and the shops to splurge at.