Janet Matricciani
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Janet Matricciani is a British-American two-time CEO (both public and private equity companies), a seasoned traveller (115 countries), a published writer (UK and US newspapers), a tennis addict and a business guru.
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Wet and Wild in the Jungles of Venezuela – An Excursion to Canaima
The Amazon jungle of Manaus in Brazil, the Grand Canyon in Colorado, the Tiz Gorges in Morocco, the Dogon country in Mali in West Africa – none are equal in natural beauty to landscapes found in the national park of Canaima, in southern Venezuela.
By Janet Matricciani3 years ago in Wander
Surfs and Zips in Costa Rica
As someone with a love of theatre, art and country music, it was with trepidation that I learned my husband had booked our family into an AirBnB house in the province of Puntarena, Costa Rica's most southern and isolated part, for a week over the Christmas holidays. However, he promised me that this particular part of the jungle was well known for opera and a favourite stopover for Pavarotti between London and L.A., so I was all in. OK, that's a lie but all new experiences are good, so off we went. We had actually been to Costa Rica before (to Papagayo, on the upper northern Pacific Ocean side) when our now-seventeen-year-old firstborn was two, but since he (then) vomited in cars every time you turned a corner, we had almost entirely hung out at the oceanside hotel. Dealing with a two-year-old is some kind of extreme cultural experience in and of itself anyway, so I wasn't really that bored.
By Janet Matricciani3 years ago in Wander
Ho, Ho Ho, It’s Helsinki!
It was with some trepidation that I took my son to Finland for a week. We were not going North to Lapland to visit Santa (who he still thinks is real, I am pleased to say, at the grand old age of seven) as it was too far from our base in Helsinki. I had some initial concerns that nothing else we did would make up for the absence of that jolly bearded gentleman. I couldn’t have been more wrong. We found enough kids’ activities to more than fill seven days, and kept so busy that not only did Noah fail to mention his missing dad or siblings once, he didn’t even ask what he was getting for Christmas, an event that is usually a daily occurrence in our household from mid-April on.
By Janet Matricciani3 years ago in Wander
