The Travelling Life – Visiting Bled Castle in Slovenia
Carol Perehudoff is a travel fanatic, spa junkie and adventure chick. A Toronto-based freelance travel writer, she’s written for the Toronto Star, Canada’s biggest-circulation newspaper, for years. (See her page here.) She believes the world is a romantic place … you just need to go out and explore it. Or, you could just read this blog.
She’s also the mastermind behind the spa blog SpastoLove.com so check it out for wellness tips, spa trends and destinations.
Travel articles
Her travel articles have appeared in a variety of magazines including enRoute, Review Magazine, Pure Canada and Royal Wings and a whole slough of newspapers like the Chicago Tribune, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post Dispatch, New Orleans Times-Picayune, New Hampshire Union Leader Post, the Halifax Chronicle Herald, Vancouver Sun and St. Petersburg Times.
Essays
Her narrative essays have appeared in the online literary journal BOULDERPAVEMENT 2012, and the travel anthologies A Woman’s Europe, published by Travelers Tales, 2004, and Go Your Own Way: Women Travel the World Solo published by Seal Press, 2007. Other essays have won honorable mentions but never a first. Something to aspire to!
Her travel articles, however, do win sometimes, so just in case you are curious here’s a list of her various awards and honours:
- 2012 Semi-finalist, 2012 Florida Review Editors’ Awards contest.
- 2010 Fellowship to attend the Narrative Journalism Program at the Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
- 2009: Shortlisted, University of Michigan – Prague Summer Program 2009 Fellowship Competition
- 2008: Award of Merit, Bylined Column, NATJA (North American Travel Journalists Association) Awards
- 2008: Award of Merit, Resort Category, NATJA Awards
- 2008: Shortlisted in the Event Magazine Nonfiction Writing Contest
- 2008: Honorable Mention in the University of New Orleans Study Abroad Program in Arts and Writing Contest
- 2008: Choice Hotels Award of Excellence, Canadian Destination – TMAC Awards2007: 1st Place, Historical Travel in the NATJA Awards
- 2007: Runner Up, Bylined Column in the NATJA Awards
- 2007: Honorable Mention, Local Lifestyles in the NATJA Awards
- 2006: Cayman Islands Media Award, Excellence in Caribbean Travel Writing – TMAC Awards
- 2006: Runner Up, Bylined Column in the NATJA Awards
- 2005: 1st Place, Cruise Category in the NATJA Awards
- 2005: 2nd Place, Leisure Category in the NATJA Awards
Professional Affiliations: SATW (Society of American Travel Writers and TMAC (Travel Media Association of Canada)
Nice gig if you can get it…lol
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Wow, you were hit up for a chocolate convention. I should be so lucky. Lady, email me direct because you’re my next interview victim. If you have the time, that is. :)
nomadic.chick@gmail.com
Hi Carol!
I hope you remember me from the Toronto apartment on Jarvis all those moons ago!
Are you still getting people jumping off buses to take photos of you?
Would love to get in touch.
Jane:)
Beautiful British Jane – of course I remember you and those crazy days in our hooker-surrounded apartment. Remember the fire?
Hello Carol,
Read with great interest your article about The Triangle, Bermuda … (in The Star)
You mention the word CARIBBEAN in the title, which is a bit confusing as we know that Bermuda is NOT in the Carribean …. even those gorgeous islands of the Bahamas are not part (technically speaking) of the Caribbean …
Just wanted to tell you that .. that you probably know already !
I am just back from my 49th travel to the … Carribean …
Thank you and take care !
Jean-Raoul Fournier
French Writer
Toronto
Hi Jean-Raoul. Thanks for reading my Bermuda article. Yes, Bermuda is in the Atlantic but the Toronto Star put it in the Caribbean section, likely because it’s an island destination. Have fun on your 50th trip!
Dear carol,
My name is Cara Bertoia and my husband and I have written a novel about our years of working as croupiers for Princess Cruises and at casinos around the world. Because of your great expertise in travel writing I would love to send you a copy to read. I have enclosed the press release so that you can find out a little more about our novel and about us. So please reply with an e-mail address so that I can send our novel to you.
Thank you, Cara Bertoia
Cruise Quarters – A Novel About Casinos and Cruise Ships released by Amazon
“Even the easy hikes around town are given added complications.”
This sentence needs to be re-written. Perhaps, when you wrote “added”, you meant “additional”. It is a tautology to say “added”. Either a situation has one complication, or it does not. If it has a second complication, it has an “additional” complication, et cetera.
Haha. Point taken. But I still say, added, additional, take your pick. Think of the phrase ‘given added value.’
Carol,
I really enjoy your blog and I was wondering if I could use your picture from the “Top-of-the-World” tub. I have a small ski tuning business in Truckee, CA and I think the picture would be great on my website to promote the apres ski lifestyle. Please let me know.
Thanks
Hi Carol, sorry I missed you at the Ritz-Carlton Spa. I love the image of you sitting underneath an art show I curated in the spa by Tania Love. I created the yogagurl program and studio there as well…let me know if you would like to visit and take a yoga class in the future! PS I am also a raw chocolate lover!
Whine less, Breathe more, Alex
Hi Alex, Yes, sorry I missed you, too. I love the piece by Tania Love in the lounge. I hope it becomes a permanent fixture. I’ll definitely do a yoga class with you sometime. Although I am really very bad at yoga.
Hey Carol! Thanks for friend-ing me on FB. Its been great to cruise around your website and learn about you. Although not new to traveling I am new to the whole travel writing scene so its great to be in touch with someone so accomplished!
Hi, Carol,
I loved your article on Normandy and the upcoming Impressionist Festival in 2013. I was living in France during the first one and it was fabulous! I am so happy that Normandy is opening its doors to the world again. It is such a lovely region of France.
Thanks, Ann! You must have had an amazing time at the festival. Normandy was a big wonderful surprise. Can’t believe I’d never been there before. Anyone who wants a bit of head’s-up info on the next Impressionist Festival in Normandy can check out my article in the Toronto Star at http://www.thestar.com/travel/article/1243275–europe-travel-normandy-france-leaves-a-big-impression-on-art-lovers
Hi Carol Im having an exhibition at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto April6th and Tom Thomson Gallerythe 7th. Hope you can make it. Dave.
Oh, sorry. I’ll be out West. I’ll stop in when I’m back.