first 24 hours in tirana
jojo: what do i like? -feels like the city (actually, every town we’ve stopped in so far) is very friendly, helpful and generally open to conversation, questions & pictures -everything is so cheap. saranda was cheap at roughly 600lek ($6…
I Believe in Miracles
One of my favourite dishes to make at home is red cooked pork belly. Once in a while I would make a trip to T&T to get all the ingredients and spend a Sunday afternoon making the dish. It’s my…
our introduction to petiscos at casa dos santo antonio: portuguese tapas
our last night in porto brought us back to the hood of the cleric’s tower to a small restaurant called casa dos santo antonio. they specialize in portuguese tapas which are called petiscos. what intrigued us the most was how…
flor dos congregados – dining at a restaurant with 160 years of history
our travel budget has seen a lot of ups and downs over the last four months, most notably when we arrived in hong kong as the number of flights and train rides have gone up drastically. we’ve been trying hard…
aging 50 years in a day… port tasting in noneother than porto
port wine is a portuguese speciality produced only in the duoro valley north of the city of porto. the city itself is quite small and a lot of ground can be covered quickly in terms of sightseeing so we spent…
first 24 hours in saranda
jojo: what do i like? -the mix between old town, new development and very quiet beaches -lots of elderly and young people out in the streets until well into the night, even on a monday. most are locals that seem…
porto’s street art scene
after seeing virtually no art in albufeira and many large murals on the way from the airport to the train station in lisbon, i wasn’t sure what to expect in porto. from a relatively small and historically important city, i…
Sunflower Fields
On our way back from Cordoba to Seville, we noticed there were fields of sunflowers. The girly girl in me squealed in silent delight at the thought of running through a field of sunflowers. But the closest one we were…
first 24 hours in santorini
jojo: what do i like? -white buildings & blue seas – the pictures of this place don’t lie, it’s pretty impressive to look at -beaches and crystal clear water – different from our previous stops. stopped by two beaches, a…
the francesinha, porto’s offering to the sandwich gods
what to eat in porto? like all other cities i’ve visited on this european leg thus far, the answer has been ‘seafood’ with octopus and cod as some specific meals. well, i’m out of luck when it comes to shellfish…
