I have more of an appetite for adventure in my 60s

Broadcaster and campaigner Mariella Frostrup chats to LAUREN TAYLOR about travelling in mid and later life

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WANDERLUST: Mariella Frostrup has the bug for adventure

MARIELLA FROSTRUP is sick of "the terrible idea that you end up post-50 and don't have an interest or an appetite for more" in life.

The 63-year-old broadcaster, author and campaigner perhaps best known for being a menopause advocate says it couldn't be further from the truth for people in her age group and older.

"Too often, the person I am, the person my friends are, and the experiences they want, are just not reflected back at us from the wider world," she says.

"People of my age, you come to an understanding that you're living the second part of your life, and actually - far from wanting it to get smaller and less inspiring and just to chug along till you slip off this mortal coil - you want to cram in all of the things that you feel like you haven't done already."

It couldn't be more true when it comes to travel. An "insatiable traveller", Mariella says, if anything, 'her bucket list' of dream destinations is getting longer, rather than shorter.

Having had her two children in her early 40s with human rights lawyer husband Jason McCue, 56, whom she met at 39 on a charity trek in Nepal, she feels a sense of freedom akin to her pre-children years.

"When it comes to travel I feel more like I did in my 20s, when I was unfettered and free, than I did in my 30s and 40s," she says. "I have more of an appetite for adventure and also a sense of 'it's now or maybe never' - so time to get on with it."