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Meliss Meets World

Your Guide to World Travel

at Meliss Meets World

New Englander exploring the World one country at a time, inspiring Wanderlust along the way!

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London is known for its wisteria, and you can see it plentiful here cascading down a beautiful white facade almost three stories in the posh Kensington neighborhood.
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Planning a trip to Africa and it's your first time visiting? Keep reading for are all the best places to visit in Africa for first timers!
Tower Bridge is one of the most iconic points of interest in London and needs to be on your 4 day London itinerary. This English, neo-gothic architecture of two towers connected by a bridge between over the Thames is quite impressive. The bridge is intricately decorated with blue hues throughout, and the best way to see it is from the Tower of London!
Provincetown, Cape Cod has some of the most beautiful and historic neighborhoods on Cape Cod. This popular house on Commercial Street always is decorated with hydrangeas and a patriotic American flag all summer.
my favorite thing I did on the Amalfi Coast Italy is a sunset boat ride in Positano
This is one of the best views of the Roman Colosseum, you can find it at Giardinetto del Monte Oppio. This will give you an elevated view of the back of the Colosseum with foliage in the foreground making it a lovely photo spot. If you stay in the Centro Storico area of Rome you'll be only a twenty minute walk from here. Whether you're spending 3 days in Rome Italy or even longer like 5 days in Rome, you have to add this to your itinerary!
here's everything you need to know for hiking Machu Picchu Peru especially if it's your first time
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Meet Meliss

Hello friend

Welcome to Meliss Meets World! I’m a part time traveler from New Engalnd and Boston who is now romanticizing her life in London. Living abroad has allowed me to travel the world with the love of my life and create this guide to world travel. I hope to inspire just a tad bit of wanderlust along the way or even help plan your next trip!

“Meliss Meets World – I hope this online diary can help plan your next trip, or inspire just a tad bit of wanderlust!⁣”

As part time travelers the initial idea behind this online diary was to have a way to document our travels around not only New England and Boston but the world. It’s hard to remember day by day memories, but looking back remembering and documenting each memory can help tell and define the story. These stories can then help you plan your next trip! I only share about destinations I’ve actually traveled to.

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Provincetown, Cape Cod has some of the most beautiful and historic neighborhoods on Cape Cod. This popular house on Commercial Street always is decorated with hydrangeas and a patriotic American flag all summer.
Cape Cod is one of the best places on the Cape to see the beautiful blue, purple, and even pink flowers hydrangeas. This quaint coastal house with blue shutters on Commercial Street has the most lovely display of them.
This is one of the most beautiful houses in Sconset, it is covered in roses when they bloom at the end of June. This shows how lovely the village or town of Sconset is and why you should absolutely visit it when visiting Nantucket.

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“Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.”
walt disney
“Paris is always a good idea.”
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“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you.”
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⛱️Best Beaches for Families: *Really most beaches ⛱️Best Beaches for Families: *Really most beaches that are bayside will have more calm, and warmer waters
-Mayflower Beach: soft sand and tidal pools
-Sandy Neck: offers a large parking lot and food trucks
-Corporarion Beach: in a crescent shape that basically becomes a giant pool when the tide is low
-Nauset and Race Point Beach: famous for seal spotting, but both are ocean side with cooler and deeper water, and occasionally large waves 

🦞Best Cape Cod Restaurants for Families:
-The Canteen: located in picturesque Ptown, this spot is casual, mostly outdoor seating. My favorite part about this restaurant is you can dip your toes in the sand while eating a delicious lobster roll!
-Mac’s on the Pier: this Wellfleet spot is right on a quiet beach, a perfect place to watch the sunset 
-Chatham Bars Farm: they have the cutest farm store, child friendly festivals, and farm dinners throughout the season 
**The Beach House Grill at Chatham Bars Inn: this is another spot that offers dining in the sand, and plenty of kids to run around and even roast marshmallows if you’re a guest! (Message me if you want to book with perks you can’t get booking yourself!)

🚲Best Things to Do:
-Wellfeet Drive-in Cinema: a fave of my husband and I as adults, they will always play a family friendly movie first and then a more adult focused movie for the price of one! 
-Heritage Museum and Gardens: if your kids loves cars, there’s a large car collection here, and large garden spaces for your kids to run around 
-Cape Cod Rail Trail: the Cape is full of these biking trails, and they’re all mostly flat and very easy for littles

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What do I miss as a former 🇬🇧Londoner who is now b What do I miss as a former 🇬🇧Londoner who is now back in 🇺🇸Boston?!

Any other questions about moving abroad? Leave them below⬇️

If you’re looking to plan that next trip to the UK, Italy, or beyond, or have no idea where to start, who better than to help than someone that’s been to so many of these destinations, and really loves to inspire wanderlust! Send me a DM or email me at Melissa.Laverty@FourHundred.com
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My love letter to the prettiest flower there is… My love letter to the prettiest flower there is…

This weekend was tough, I always get a little emo towards the end of summer. It doesn’t help that this weekend was also the first one I’ve had a chance to slow down, and really think about my path forward. 

I’ve cherished these almost 9 months I’ve gotten to spend and be at home with Oli. I waited so long to finally be a Mom, but I’m going to have to give that up soon. The business is ramping up, and Mama has to get back to work! He’ll be starting daycare in just a few weeks, and I feel like I have to get back to reality. 

That realization sunk in hard this weekend, and really knocked me down. It’s hard to feel that I’m almost losing my identity a bit with giving my responsibility up to someone else, and also trying to navigate finding myself again and who that person is now. 

How does one do this? I’ll take all the help I can get!!

Thanks for listening 🩵
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Here’s to another beautiful birthday on Nantucket… Here’s to another beautiful birthday on Nantucket…

If only I could have known this time last year that everything would be ok…we lost our angel twin last July. Only a few weeks after my birthday would I have the MRI to determine the procedure that attempted to save our angel twin didn’t have a negative effect on Oli. 

I cried tears of joy after waiting over a long weekend for the MRI results, when they told me my scan was normal, and that Oli should continue to develop as any normal pregnancy would. 

He is the greatest birthday gift I could have ever received, just like those belated MRI scan results were. 

So here’s to hope, and always believing that light will eventually shine your way🩵.
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September and October are the perfect times to vis September and October are the perfect times to visit Italy...I would always avoid this popular country in the summer if I could! 

Want to start planning?! Send me a message🥰.
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Why you should hire a travel advisor… Thanks @ana Why you should hire a travel advisor…

Thanks @anantaraconventodiamalfi for these photos!
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Even though I’ve visited 40+ countries, Cape Cod w Even though I’ve visited 40+ countries, Cape Cod will always be my favorite place to summer…and here’s why!
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Something I’ve read recently is that you’re never Something I’ve read recently is that you’re never going to regret the investment you made in yourself by choosing the correct life partner that completes you, the best friends that bring you joy, and the others that bring something to your life and not take away from it.

And on that note- a very happy belated anniversary and birthday to my wonderful husband. His pipe dream to move out of the small town Midwest to a big city, and even abroad, came true!

This was not without work, and building the life we had always dreamed together. I promise though, if we can make our dreams come true, so can you!

He really has shown me the world, and without him I can’t imagine how different my life would be. He gave me the greatest blessing I will ever know- my little boy- and a love I do not deserve.

So here’s to choosing those people you surrounding yourself with, and raising your little ones to be a person others want to surround themselves with too!
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