Eat Eat Eat for Greek Easter
“In Greece there are no rules, if you want to eat cake now for dinner, you can have your cake!” exclaimed our new friend Shlomo. Music to my ears. What I had originally thought were Greek clichés exaggerated for the sake of movie goers and entertainment turn out not to be overblown clichés at all. […]
In the Lands of Orange Blossoms and Rakia
It only takes an hour to leave a familiar Italy to enter a region we know nothing about in our own backyard. It is a challenge to write about a place you feel to have only gotten a glimpse of. I am embarrassed to admit that I had previously assigned Croatia, Montenegro and Albania to […]
La Dolce Vita
The beginning of our journey starts on familiar territory, a country we both love and know well – Italy. Cruising into the Santa Lucia train station in Venice just as the sun rises over the lagoon, does make the 12 hour train journey from Paris worth it. Still sweaty and sleepy from time spent in […]
東 Journey to the East
“One Year, 20 countries, 50 chefs.” It is politically incorrect to say I love flying nowadays, especially since we will be avoiding any flights on our “big trip” and even though I hate a 12-hour flight in cramped economy seats like anyone else; I can never contain the excitement I feel when walking into an […]
The Marco to my Polo
“How very odd that one bends one’s own twig and it stays bent. Who could have foreseen the permanent effect of childhood journeys on streetcars? No other manner of living would have interested me so much and so long and I will surely go on until I drop trying to see more of the world and […]
