Food
Observations from Berlin
We only had 5 days in Berlin so we didn’t really get to explore the city too much. Berlin definitely warrants a second visit. What stuck out to me about Berlin are as follows: 1) A beer garden is exactly…
first 24 hours in brussels (belgium)
jojo: what do i like? -comics, cartoons and street murals all wrapped into one -back amongst the french which means the pain au chocolat diet is back in effect. booyah. -love the old architecture. i know i’m being hypocritical because…
Getting my pho on in Prague
I didn’t know until we got to Prague that the Vietnamese people forms the largest immigrant community in Poland according to Wikipedia. Best news ever because I can finally have some decent pho! We were in Prague 5 days and I…
how zagreb stole our hearts in 72 hours
we only spent two and a half days in zagreb and although it isn’t a large city, the days flew right by. by this point we had spent nearly two weeks in croatia moving from the south to the northwest…
truffles for brunch? in croatia… yes please
by recommendation of frank, we made a pit stop for lunch on our way from porec to zagreb. motovun is a town east of porec and is situated smack dab in the middle of truffle country. every autumn, the truffle…
our daytrip to rovinj fueled by truffles
i was down and out for a few days in porec thanks to an allergic reaction to something i ate so i had the itch to get out and see what else this peninsula had to offer. rovinj is another…
weekly recap #24 – warsaw & riga
q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. warsaw (5 nights), riga (3 nights) q. favourite meal a. haha’s birthday meal at starry dom which was a fancier take on traditional polish cuisine. this might be stating…
denmark in pictures: family weekend in copenhagen
three days in copenhagen went by all too fast after seeing my parents for the first time in five months. we squeezed in a few meals, a few neighbourhood walks, a singing flash mob and a daytrip to the louisiana…
exploring croatia: klis fortress & krka national park
i’ve learned that driving to croatia can be both relaxing (like our coastal drive), harrowing like trying to find our split airbnb in a city built on one-way traffic and on this day, extra confusing. why do i say that? …
a quick lunch stop in ston for oysters
in dubrovnik we had crossed paths with a small group of travelling frenchmen who were on the tail end of their stay in croatia. they put us onto a small town north of dubrovnik that, according to the french couple,…
