Geri Halliwell-Horner might greatest be generally known as the Spice Ladies’ Ginger Spice, however her true lady energy trait is her fearless curiosity with which she explores the world—and it is a high quality that is useful throughout her international travels. 

“I am Miss Curious,” the singer, writer, actress, and mom of two mentioned to Journey + Leisure on a name final month. “I do not care what it’s. I believe all the things’s attention-grabbing.”

She really leaned into her intrepid spirit with Rainbow Girl, a present that launched on YouTube in 2020. Within the sequence, she went on a “lady energy journey of discovery” and experimented with all the things from beekeeping to tenting. Some issues she, admittedly, appreciated greater than others.

“I really suppose tenting is sort of suffocating once you’ve obtained that canvassing over your head,” she mentioned. “I discovered it a bit claustrophobic.”

As a substitute, she prefers a easy various: making camp within the open, like she as soon as did within the Arabian Desert outdoors of Dubai. “I sat on the prime of this hill of sand and regarded up on the night time sky, and it was flooded with diamonds,” she mentioned. “The celebs appeared so near me. It was probably the most enchanting factor.”

Halliwell-Horner by no means shies away from an journey, and she or he’s completely at residence with a low-key getaway, like sipping tea by the ocean, in addition to extra intense undertakings, comparable to mountaineering. A few of her favourite journey reminiscences embody a hike on Cape City’s Desk Mountain, in addition to an ascent up an Austrian peak the place she bumped into an surprising snowstorm.

“It was a vivid sunny day, so I went up in my shorts, however by the point I obtained to the highest, there was a snowstorm!” she mentioned. “There was just a little hut, and the person there gave us some good sizzling meals, however we obtained caught within the blizzard.” 

However, as Halliwell-Horner put it, all the difficulty was price it in the long run. “I wrote a very good tune afterward,” she mentioned.

The British icon is greatest recognized for her time as a pop star, however she’s a profitable writer as nicely. Her younger grownup fantasy novel, “Rosie Frost & the Falcon Queen,” landed on the New York Instances Greatest Sellers checklist in 2023. She says she typically makes use of her journeys as a supply of inspiration.

“I’ve been writing for therefore lengthy, so an concept might be for a tune, which is sort of like a espresso espresso shot,” Halliwell-Horner mentioned. “For a ebook, it is a feast to make you are feeling the facility of phrases.”

For instance, she has a fascination with Tresco, an island positioned 28 miles off the Cornish coast in southwest England. The island has a singular subtropical microclimate, which helped spark the thought of Bloodstone Island, a Jurassic Park-like place stuffed with endangered species. In the meantime, a go to to Mount Fuji fueled the plot of the second ebook of her sequence, “Rosie Frost: Ice on Hearth,” obtainable on the market as of April 8.

Through the writing course of, concepts popped up throughout all factors of her travels, even mid-flight. “For this ebook, I wrote down concepts on the evacuation directions behind the seat pocket and a sick bag as a result of I simply didn’t need to overlook it,” she mentioned. “I’m at all times taking notes and writing issues down. I don’t even notice I’m doing it.”

Nonetheless, this is not Halliwell-Horner’s first go-round with being a profitable writer. Whereas selling her first ebook sequence, Ugenia Lavender, she toured all throughout the U.S. and at all times made positive to make a cease at her favourite sort of retailer in each metropolis: a bookshop.

“It is virtually like I want an grownup to seize me by the scruff of the neck to drag me away since I begin taking a look at all the opposite books considering, ‘Oh, that appears attention-grabbing,’” she mentioned. Halliwell-Horner provides that she virtually at all times has a ebook on her, and she or he’s often in the course of 4 totally different books of assorted genres at any time.

She loves visiting bookstores when she’s residence within the U.Ok., too. One among her favorites is Daunt Books in Marylebone, which she mentioned is a must-visit for all ebook lovers. She particularly loves second-hand bookshops as nicely. “Dusty previous books have a humorous scent about them that I discover fairly comforting,” she mentioned.

To Halliwell-Horner, journey and studying are inherently linked—they’re each transformational in nature. “Should you’ve traveled the world, you have at all times obtained a ebook on you,” she mentioned. “Typically, our minds turn out to be like a muddy pond of stagnant, muddied water, however when you really clear it out, you understand precisely what’s best for you.”

That sort of change fuels the plot of “Ice on Hearth,” which is about throughout a volcanic eruption—a metaphor for private development and the facility of issues past our management.

“Typically we’re that exploding volcano that is going to erupt, after which typically it is the peaceable, stunning ocean,” she mentioned. “What I like about journey is that it’s a battle between science and nature, man versus Mom Nature. Who’s in cost? After I journey, I get my reply proper in entrance of me. The roar of the ocean, the tumbling huge rocks thundering down the aspect of a mountain—that is who’s in cost!”