Nine years of living, travelling, and falling in love with Europe. Not from a brochure. Not from a screen. From being there — in the villages, on the coastal roads, at the tables where locals eat. This is the person who will plan your journey.
It started the way the best things do — not with a business plan, but with a feeling. The feeling of arriving somewhere new, finding a place that feels like it was waiting for you, and wanting to bring everyone you love there too.
For nine years, Kitty has been doing exactly that. Not as a tourist. Not passing through. Living it. Learning which hotels have the room with the best morning light. Which driver knows the road that avoids the crowds. Which restaurant the locals go to on a Tuesday night when the tourists have gone home.
She has walked the Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland when the rain stopped and the light turned gold. She has sat in a Tuscan vineyard at sunset and forgotten what day it was. She has watched the harbour lights come on in a Greek fishing village from the deck of a boat and thought: everyone should feel this.
That is what The Vagabond Alchemist is. Not a travel agency in the traditional sense. Not a booking platform. A curator. A host. A person who builds journeys from real experience, real relationships with real people on the ground, and a genuine love for the places she sends you.
Registered travel advisor through WorldVia with access to 200+ vetted suppliers worldwide, $2M errors and omissions insurance, and the infrastructure of a professional agency — but with the personal touch of someone who will text you from a cobblestone street to say: "I just found the perfect dinner spot for your group."
Not a weekend trip. Nine years of deep, sustained travel across Ireland, Italy, Greece, Portugal, France, and beyond.
Licensed travel advisor on the Growth plan. Access to 200+ vetted suppliers. $2M E&O insurance. Professional infrastructure.
An engaged audience on Instagram who follow her travel writing and trust her recommendations. Real people, not bought followers.
Small groups. Personal attention. No mass tourism. Every trip is curated by hand with suppliers she has personally vetted.
Travel essays and destination dispatches that subscribers pay for monthly. The writing is part of the brand — authentic, literary, and real.
She is on every group trip. Not sending people to places she has never been. Walking with them. Eating with them. Making sure every moment lands.
That is the tagline. It means: she would rather take the flight than wonder what would have happened. And when she gets there, she leads with her heart. That is the kind of person you want planning your trip.