The Rare Welsh Bit is an award-winning food and travel blog with a predominantly UK-based audience; 70% are female, with 45% aged 25-44 and 30% aged 45-64. In addition, the blog attracts a growing US-based readership. The Rare Welsh Bit also has over 30,000 social media followers. Discover more here and get in touch for a copy of my media kit.
Blog & social media services for food & travel brands
I work with food and travel brands in many different ways. Here are some of the services I offer through my blog and my social media channels:
- Sponsored content
- Content creation
- Recipe development
- Restaurant reviews
- Side-bar advertising
- Affiliate advertising
- Press trip attendance
- Hotel reviews
- Giveaways
- Food awards judging (previously, I’ve judged Welsh Street Food Awards 2022, Welsh Italian Awards 2017-18, and Wales the True Taste Awards 2011)
Food & travel clients
Here are just some of the food and travel brands I’ve worked with since setting up my blog 13 years ago:
Food brands
- Alaska Seafood
- Bidfood
- Caws Cenarth Cheese
- Discover Delicious Wales
- Food and Drink Wales
- Harvey and Brockless
- HelloFresh
- Holland’s Pies
- INTERPORC
- Italian Awards
- Just Love Food Co.
- Love Food Hate Waste
- Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)
- Marks and Spencer
- McCain Foods
- Naked Nutrition
- OpenTable
- Pembrokeshire Beach Food Co.
- Porc Blasus
- Sainsbury’s
- Snowdonia Cheese
- Spanish Chorizo Consortium
- Swaledale Online Butchers
- tastecard
- The Big Welsh Bite
- The Royal Welsh Show
- Wales The True Taste Awards
- Waitrose
- We are Edwards
- Welsh Cheese Co.
Travel brands
- Bristol Airport
- Cardiff Airport
- Come To Hamburg
- Constantinou Bros’ Hotels
- Discover Carmarthenshire
- Expedia
- FOR Cardiff
- Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts
- Grenada Tourism Authority
- Hilton Hotels
- Jet2
- Magnetic Latvia
- Mercure Hotels
- Milford Waterfront
- National Express
- North East Wales Tourism
- Qatar Airways
- Royal Brunei Airlines
- Sabah Tourism
- The Celtic Collection
- Tourism Ireland
- Traverse Events
- Transport For Wales
- Travelodge
- Tŷ Hotels
- Visit Belfast
- Visit Bristol
- Visit Cardiff
- Visit Monmouthshire
- Visit Wales
- Welcome to Gouda
- Wonderful Malaysia
Additional services
Trusted food & travel writing
Besides managing The Rare Welsh Bit, I have over 13 years’ professional writing and editing experience, and I am available for freelance commissions. Previous clients include Sainsbury’s Magazine, Co-Op Food Mag, The Sun, Visit Wales, Discover Carmarthenshire, World Travel Market, Cardiff Life, WalesOnline and Around Town Wales magazines. View my writing portfolio.
Professional food photography
In addition to blogging at The Rare Welsh Bit and writing about food and travel for other publications, I offer professional food photography services. Recent commissions include Visit Wales and Discover Carmarthenshire.
Public speaking opportunities
I’m also available for public speaking opportunities, having recently been invited to speak alongside the likes of the Hairy Bikers; and food and travel writer, Ghillie Basan at the Scottish Tourism Alliance and Scotland Food and Drink’s Power of Food Tourism conference on 8th March 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland.
Fancy working with my blog and/or commissioning me as a writer or photographer? Please get in touch to discuss what we can achieve together.