A Winter Wonderland :: Vienna

Winter is coming!  We get some snowy days in the UK but not many and the snow doesn’t, usually, hang around for very long. In February 2010 I went on a five day trip in Europe; a five day and …

Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina

Sometimes numbers are difficult to get your head around.  A glacier that is 19 miles long is something that is very difficult to imagine.  It’s also difficult to imagine how beautiful it is too, and also how different it is …

Winter in Chile

Here in Chile, it is the middle of winter! The children have had their winter holidays and the snow has covered the top of the surrounded mountains in Santiago. I have never experienced this season in Chile before, and I …

Every cloud has a silver lining

“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 …

Magnificent Mountains

Mountains.  They are stunningly beautiful, especially when coated in snow. My first glimpse of gigantic mountains was in 2008.  While in Nepal.  Clem and I spent seven weeks in Nepal during monsoon season.  One afternoon, after coming home from work, we …

Happy Birthday Clem!

Happy Birthday! Some of my favourite memories of our adventures together!  Can’t wait to see where is next… Love from Marcella xx

Happy Everything!

I have just come back from a day and a half in the Alps! It was a very spontaneous ski break, short but intense! My cousin offered me to go skiing with him and my oncle in the morning and …