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Luxury travel blog » Wandering Carol – a luxury travel expert

Wandering Carol – a luxury travel expert

Here you’ll find out why Wandering Carol is a luxury travel expert, what education she has and a (fairly hefty list) of her writing and website awards

 

Logos for Carol Perehudoff, luxury travel blogger, in the media

 

Luxury travel writer

Life as a travel writer takes you to some spectacular places. In Wandering Carol’s career as a travel columnist, spa expert, freelance writer and luxury travel expert she’s visited some of the world’s best hotels, spas and most authentic out-of-the-way places. She sees no reason to stop now.

Luxury travel blogger Wandering Carol

 

A luxury travel writer based in Toronto

Wandering Carol is Carol Perehudoff, is a freelance writer and luxury travel writer based in Toronto. She is highly overeducated with an English degree, a Masters degree in Visual Art and an MBA, which she got in Korea. By accident. (Remind her to tell you the story sometime.)

She’s not the world’s best traveller, but she may be the most enthusiastic luxury traveller around, especially if her trips involves mountains, hot springs, spas, art and/or shoe shopping. Her most recent purchase? A Murano glass chandelier in Venice, because everyone needs more light in their life.

(If you’re curious to see how she manages to travel in style check out her article How I afford luxury travel. And here’s her definition of what luxury travel is – it might be more than you think.)

Wandering Carol in Norcia, Italy

Hanging with the animals in Norcia, Italy

 

Carol Perehudoff’s published travel articles

In addition to running this travel magazine, Carol has written for a number of top newspapers and magazines throughout North America and beyond. Her travel articles have appeared in publications such as the Toronto Star, enRoute Magazine, Review Magazine, Pure Canada, Royal Wings, 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. There are more but she’s tired of writing.

Published travel essays

When she’s not out roaming the world, she’s holed up writing deeply profound travel essays. No, really. (Okay, so maybe they’re not that profound.) Her narrative essays have appeared in the online literary journal BOULDERPAVEMENT 2012, and in 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 honourable mentions but never a first. Something to aspire to!

Wandering Carol in Churchill Manitoba Canada

Looking for polar bears on Hudson Bay

 

Travel Writing and Website Awards

Every so often she gets lucky and wins a writing award (though she’s not having much luck with the lottery). In case you are curious here’s a list of some various awards, honours and shout outs:

 

  • 2019 1st Prize for Best Lifestyle or Wellness Feature – Travel Media Association Awards
  • 2018 Gold Medal for Best Luxury or Resort Online Article – North America Travel Journalists Association
  • 2018 Honourable Mention for Best Cruise Article Online – North America Travel Journalists Association
  • 2018 Top 50 Global Luxury Travel Blogs – Amsterdam Diary
  • 2018 Best Luxury Travel Blogs 2018, Top Industry Experts – Credit Donkey
  • 2018 The 45 Best Boomer Travel Blogs 2018 – GettingonTravel.com
  • 2017 Honourable Mention – Best Outdoor Adventure Article – Travel Media Association of Canada
  • 2017 Top 60 Canadian Travel Blogs – Feedspot.com
  • 2017 #4 in Luxury Travel Blog category – List of Top Travel Blogs at Joaoleitao.com
  • 2017 Top 100 Freelance Bloggers – Feedspot.com
  • 2016 Top 50 Luxury Travel Blogs – Upstyle Travel
  • 2016 Named a 10 Best Luxury Travel Blogger (again) in the USA Today 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards
  • 2016 Top Luxury Travel Blogs of 2016 – HelloTravel.com
  • 2015 Best Travel Blogs – The Luxe Insider
  • 2015 Best Service Article – Travel Media Association of Canada
  • 2015 Does this count? I’m listing it anyway. Ha ha. Named one of the 10 Hottest Female Bloggers over 40 at NomadicChic.com
  • 2015 Named one of FlipKey’s Top Toronto-Based Bloggers
  • 2014 Voted one of the 10 Best Luxury Travel Bloggers in the USA Today and 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards
  • 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 Awards
  • 2007: 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 Travel Writing Affiliations

Carol is a member of SATW (Society of American Travel Writers), TMAC (Travel Media Association of Canada), NATJA (North American Travel Journalists Association) and PTBA (the Professional Travel Bloggers Association).

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Comments

  1. ziad El Itani says

    February 21, 2018 at 8:33 am

    it is an easy-to read, because you are an excellent writer

  2. Carol Perehudoff says

    February 21, 2018 at 8:30 am

    Thanks, Ziad. I’m glad it was an easy-to-read guide.

  3. ziad El Itani says

    February 21, 2018 at 8:27 am

    Hi Carol:
    I enjoyed reading your article about your trip from Berlin to Praha, I think you explained all what can be explained to make it a clear easy to follow trip
    Regards

    Ziad El Itani

  4. Carol Perehudoff says

    August 14, 2016 at 1:55 pm

    Thanks, Shannon. Yes, we agree on the benefits of train travel. Definitely.

  5. Shannon says

    August 8, 2016 at 2:51 pm

    Hi again, Carol. I especially love your comments about taking the train–other than local buses, it’s such a great way to get to know the people and the culture at a destination. I look forward to reading about more of your adventures.

  6. Carol Perehudoff says

    April 7, 2013 at 11:26 am

    Oh, sorry. I’ll be out West. I’ll stop in when I’m back.

  7. dave says

    March 31, 2013 at 1:31 pm

    Hi Carol Im having an exhibition at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto April6th and Tom Thomson Gallerythe 7th. Hope you can make it. Dave.

  8. wanderingcarol says

    August 29, 2012 at 12:38 pm

    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.

  9. Ann Saul says

    August 22, 2012 at 11:50 am

    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.

  10. Jim O'Donnell says

    July 29, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    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!

  11. wanderingcarol says

    March 18, 2012 at 9:07 pm

    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.

  12. alex leikermoser says

    March 17, 2012 at 4:10 pm

    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

  13. wanderingcarol says

    September 3, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    Haha. Point taken. But I still say, added, additional, take your pick. Think of the phrase ‘given added value.’

  14. Patrick Milroy says

    September 3, 2011 at 11:10 am

    “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.

  15. Cara Bertoia says

    April 22, 2011 at 1:09 pm

    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

  16. Jean Raoul Fournier says

    February 5, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    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

  17. wanderingcarol says

    January 22, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    Beautiful British Jane – of course I remember you and those crazy days in our hooker-surrounded apartment. Remember the fire?

  18. Jane Babst says

    January 22, 2011 at 3:22 pm

    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:)

  19. Nomadic Chick says

    March 14, 2010 at 12:59 am

    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

  20. Sheila Baker says

    December 27, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    Hi Carol:
    I enjoyed reading your article on chocolate.
    Kindly,
    Sheila Baker

  21. altonwoods says

    December 7, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    Nice gig if you can get it…lol

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