Tag: food

Fez, Morocco: a Perfect Quick Getaway

What is the perfect getaway, anyway? For me, it’s spending a few days in a new environment — leaving the familiar behind and diving headfirst into new smells, tastes, sounds, and sights. It’s that sense of sensory overload that somehow resets your system. You return home relaxed, energized, and inspired. I found exactly that in […]

Eating dog in East Timor

Don’t Knock It Till You’ve Tried It It wasn’t a mistake. It was a conscious choice I made under the motto: don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. There I was, sitting in the hostel’s common room, chatting with a group of interesting travellers who had all found their way to a relatively unknown destination: […]

Eating Penang

As I write this, I’m lying on the sofa, pants half open, thinking maybe I’ve overdone it. I’m on Pulau Penang, a small island off the coast of Malaysia, connected to the mainland by a 13.7km bridge. Charming! Chinese influence meets Western colonial style. And of course, there is the lush greenery around every corner, […]