Today our current co-hosts reveal more about themselves and travel as well as announcing who has been nominated by the current girls for the next three months!  Make sure to share your past or current travel/expat adventures with us in the link up below. Above all have fun and meet some great travel minded people!

5 Travel Facts about me:

1. I once spent the night in the ticket counter area of LaGuardia airport in the dead of winter. It was not the most pleasant experience.
2. I suffer from terrible immigration control inspired terror every time I re-enter the UK even though my visa is perfectly valid.
3. My accent mystifies people. I’ve had people guess that I’m from pretty much any English speaking country in the world. (My favourite guess was Somerset, England)
4. My favourite trip abroad was a week in Turkey.
5. Italy is top of my travel bucket list!

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Hi there! My name is Marcella and my blog is WhatAWonderfulWorld, where I
blog about my current and previous travels. My favourite things in life are travel,
photography, yoga and vegetarian food. I am currently living and working in
wonderful London, the city where I grew up and the city that I grew to love more
and more each year. In three months time, I am moving across the world to
Chile, a country that I lived in four years ago and a country that stole my heart
(literally!) so I am currently getting ready for my new adventure.

Five Travel Facts:

1.  I’m lucky enough to have visited 36 countries.
2.  I believe in holiday romances; I met my fiancé while travelling, resulting in me
moving over 7000 miles to Chile.
3. When in India and Nepal, people laughed whenever I introduced myself as
they thought my name was the same as the Indian spice ‘masalla.’
4. The earliest party I went to was a carnival street party in Rio at 7am.
5. Mountains are my favourite type of scenery.

Blog: https://clemandmarcella.wordpress.com/
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Instagram: https://instagram.com/marcella_ella_ella_/

And now to announce the lovely bloggers who have been nominated for the next three months.  If you see your name, get in contact with me and look out for my email coming this week.

Christine from A Keane Sense of Adventure  http://www.akeanesenseofadventure.com/
Sara from Sara Sees! http://www.sara-sees.com
Lauren from Lauren on Location http://laurenonlocation.com/

Check out these lovely blogs and send them some congrats in their comments today!

Plus you can link up and hop along below!

Best thing about living the expat life in England—castles! Castles are not on short supply here in the UK and my family is enjoying getting to see different ones. The castle that has been able to really come to life the most in this modern day is Warwick castle. Located in Warwick, this castle is near Shakespeare’s Stratford on Avon. We recommend taking enough time to see both places, so making a weekend out of it is highly suggested.

My boys are both fans of Horrible Histories and they made the interaction aspect of Warwrick Castle a fantastic experience for my sons. They were given special badges and activity packs when we entered and there were many different locations through out the inside and outside of the Castle for them to get a Horrible History twist on things. The people who were working through out Warwick Castle were phenomenal and really brought the place to life.

I could definitely see returning Warwick Castle as we did not get to see all the shows and theres bound to be things we did not see the first time. Even with so many people there, the crowds were not a problem. There were great food options available and you could even bring in your own and have a picnic on the lawn. Here are a few more favourite photographs of mine from our adventures at Warwick Castle.

Don’t forget to link up! x

Happy Travel Tuesday! My name is Marcella and I blog over at WhatAWonderfulWorld. I’m a

Londoner who loves to blog about travel and photography. Today I’m sharing my

feelings on CouchSurfing while travelling.

Rewind to summer 2009.

One evening I got a text from a friend, which read something like this…

‘I’m walking to the bus station to meet a girl who is coming to stay at our flat for

the night.  We’ve never met before’

‘What?’

‘It’s called Couchsurfing.  Look it up.’

These words opened up many doors over the next few years!  When receiving the text I

was in the process of planning my 5 month trip to South America.   I clicked onto the Couchsurfing website and spent many hours

searching through the website looking at profiles.  I also created my profile; with just my

For those of you who don’t know; CouchSurfing is a website where you advertise your

couch/bed/mattress/floor for travellers to sleep on for a few nights.  You send requests to

hosts and afterwards leave reviews for your hosts.  The idea being that you get to see the

‘real’ country/ city by staying with locals and getting to know the culture.

Anyway, fast forward a few months.  I met up with an old school friend, who loves

travelling as much as I do, and we got onto the topic of CouchSurfing.  I said I’d heard of

it and had looked at the website.  He raved about it and said that he had surfed around

many countries.  Now I’d had two raving reviews to use Couchurfing.  So that evening I

went home and completed my profile – added information about me and pictures.  I then

began searching for couches in Rio.

My first stop on my 5 month trip was Rio during carnival.  I knew that carnival was

going to be a VERY busy time for Couchsurfers so I sent off around 4 requests to hosts.

The next day I received a message back from a host saying they’d be happy to host me.

At the same time I was looking on the group for Rio and saw a post from Kelly asking if

anyone was interested in travelling around after carnival.  I hit reply. As if by fate Kelly

had also messaged the same CS host I was staying with.  We chatted on Skype and

planned a few places to go after carnival.

In February 2010 Kelly and I met at Rio airport and headed to our CS hosts place.  She

was hosting another 6 CSers at the same time; I told you carnival was busy!  A few days

later she said we could stay with her friend, another CSer from Rio, as she was heading to

her mum’s house.  Our next CS host was hosting 8 CSers in total from all over the world.

He had keys cut for all of us.  During carnival he took us to all the local parties and street

parties.  Ones that we would have never know about without CS.

After carnival was finished we travelled to two other

places in Brazil; Florianópolis and Porto Alegre, where we were hosted by

amazing hosts.  Brazil was the start of my love for Couchsurfing and seeing the ‘real’

country with locals.  I was addicted!

During the rest of my travels I met many CSers who showed me local places, shared food

with me, gave me advice etc.  I then also surfed two couches in Paris later that year.

When I then moved to Chile at the end of 2010 it was my time to finally pay back for all

that my CS hosts had done for me; it was my turn to host.  I was so excited!  I kept this

up while living in England.  In total I have surfed ten couches and I have hosted nine

groups of people too.  Life got quite busy and so weekends became full up and hosting

slowed down but i’m itching for CS again!

Have you ever Couchsurfed? What do you think about it?  If you’re in doubt, I couldn’t

recommend it enough!

Happy Surfing!

x
Marcella

Happy Travel Tuesday! My name is Marcella and I blog over at WhatAWonderfulWorld. I’m a Londoner who loves to blog about travel and photography. Today I’m sharing a travel adventure, that didn’t quite go to plan… but had a beautiful ending!

“Be careful going to Mendoza this weekend. You might get stuck in the mountains if it snows!” But I thought we’d be fine!

While living in Santiago, Clem and I went to Mendoza in Argentina for the weekend. It’s a seven hour bus ride away with a scenic view from the windows of the bus but we didn’t realise quite how scenic our return journey would be! We left on the Friday and spent the weekend there. When arriving to the bus station in Mendoza on the Sunday morning we were told that the border crossing had closed because it had snowed in the mountains. The border crossing is in the mountains and so when it snows it gets closed. We called our bosses and explained that we were stuck but should be back tomorrow.

For the following two mornings we went to the bus station early in the morning to hear that it was still closed. It was also a public holiday and so pretty much everything was closed. We spent many hours hopping between different cafes and wondering around. On the Wednesday it was re-opened and we were on our way along with everyone else who has been stuck for days. So instead of a 7 hour trip… it took 12 hours to get back.

But… every cloud has a silver lining and we were rewarded with these beautiful views of the mountains covered in soft, white snow. On our way up… More and more snow filled the view as we got higher and higher. We were really happy to see this sign. Just try not to get altitude sickness and forget how to speak Spanish at the border crossing, like I did!

Have you had a ‘every cloud has a silver lining’ moment?

Marcella xx

Happy Travel Tuesday!  My name is Marcella and I blog over at WhatAWonderfulWorld.  I’m a

Londoner who loves to blog about travel and photography.  Today I’m sharing a nature

filled adventure that I went on as part of my five months travelling in South America.  I

hope you enjoy it

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Ah, waterfalls. Such a beautiful part of nature. So mesmerising to watch and so

refreshing to stand under.  Today, I am going to share my adventures to Angel Falls in

Venezuela. Angel Falls is the world’s highest interrupted waterfall. You can find it in the

Canaima National Park in Venezuela. It’s a three day trip as it’s so remote but the beauty

that surrounds the waterfall is never to be forgotten so it’s something special. You have to

go on an organised trip to get to it.  Getting there is a journey in itself, so let’s go…

First step. Take this teeny, tiny plane for one hour. I spent the whole hour with gritted

teeth, clutching my stomach as you feel every slight little bump. There were five of us

plus the pilot on the plane. Looking back at these photos now I can see how pretty the

views were but I’m surprised I even managed to take photos as I just remember feeling

petrified the whole time!   Once you’ve arrived and got over the

fear of the plane (i’m a bit of a scaredy cat for things like that.  It probably wasn’t that

bad!) you can take a walk to the beach that is just by where you’ll stay that night.  It’s

really pretty!  Warm water, waterfalls, palm trees… Look… You take the boat so that you

can walk under a waterfall.  It was SO loud but in a ‘nature is amazing’ kind of way.   That night you sleep in little huts and

the next morning it’s time to head off on a boat through the beautifully, stunning national

href=”https://clemandmarcella.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/dscf4409.jpg”> And… finally, you arrive!  Well,

almost.  You see the waterfall from afar and then take a little walk to reach the bottom of

it.  It’s amazing when the boat draws closer to the waterfall as you see it from a great

distance away and you think ‘wow… that’s the highest waterfall in the world!’And the view from our hammocks

that night, the world’s highest waterfall. Pretty special.

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