RTE's Lucy Kennedy might have settled down, getting married and becoming pregnant in the last year but her colleague Kathryn Thomas won't be following suit. "No myself and Enda aren't married, engaged or even have plans," she said when asked what's in store for her and her partner of two years, Garda Enda Waters. "I'm just not ready to put the back pack away yet. There's definitely at least another year of travel in me."

Although the couple recently moved into their new house in Inchicore, swine flu is more likely to keep Kathryn at home than anything else. Her travel show No Frontiers is due to begin shooting next week and Kathryn (30) says that some destinations, like Mexico and the southern states of the US are off the show's itinerary.

The Carlow woman says that she and her TV team have to be particularly cautious because any filming they do this summer won't be seen on RTE TV till 2010.

"You don't know how things might change. Everybody is just playing it by ear and the next couple of weeks will be crucial," she said.

Kathryn was able to advise her best friend, who got married last weekend – with Kathryn as bridesmaid – about her honeymoon destination. "She and her husband had planned to do three weeks down the west coast of America, down as far as San Diego in California but I advised her to go somewhere else. Luckily she was able to make other arrangements so she's changed their route and isn't going as far south now."

Series 12 of No Frontiers, which begins shooting on June 16, will be a scaled back affair according to its host. "This year we're going to focus a lot more on affordable holidays and escapism. We're doing a lot of back-packing so we're almost going back to my roots, with trips like adventure travel in Africa. We're not leaving out America entirely, if we can stay up in the north of the country, so we're looking at an Amtrack coast-to-coast trip, starting at the Brooklyn Bridge in New York and ending up at The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco."

Kathryn is hoping to get some more writing done, following the success of her best-selling travel book Off The Beaten Track which was nominated in The Irish Book Awards last week.

"I wrote quite a lot of the last book in airports and on long-haul flights. It took me the guts of a year and a half to compete. A long struggle but I got there. I do want to do a second book but I don't yet know if it's going to be another travel book or whether I should try and get into fiction. I haven't really given it enough thought yet. What I do know is to get it done while travelling, I'm going to need to set aside some time every day to write."