Category: Day 0 trip
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Day 155 – Seville, Spain – Andalusian cuisine: Eating tapas in Seville
Andalusian cuisine Andalusian cuisine reflects the deep history and turmoil of the region. You can trace the region’s traditional dishes to contributions made by different cultures throughout time. The region was first settled by the Phoenicians around 1100BC who first planted olives and grapevines. 300 years later the region would become the main source…
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Day 147 – Viareggio, Italy – Carnival in Viareggio
When I stepped off the train, I liked Viareggio immediately. A charming seaside Italian city that reminded me of New Orleans for some reason. Not exactly in the architecture or the language, it was a feeling, the city’s soul. Some places are just like that. And this place felt laid back and ready to…
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Day 140 – Florence (Firenze), Italy – Tuscan food and the Italian Renaissance
I didn’t really warm up to Florence immediately. And like any place I have high expectations of, I started off a bit disappointed. The dense narrow streets with tiny sidewalks flanked by enormous uninviting doors. It’s the kind of place where all of the good stuff is inside someone else’s walls and you’re not…
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Day 139 – Verona, Italy
Verona wasn’t on our itinerary but I’ve always been curious about this Italian city so we booked an overnight to check it out on the way to Florence. Charmingly cheesy, stunningly beautiful, laid back and lazy. Verona is exactly what you want it to be. Romantic architecture, lots of public squares, Roman antiquity peppered…
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Day 133 – Venice, Italy – Not gone, not yet. I’m happy I got to know her.
Leaving Venice I fought my way against the current of endless tourists, swimming through the claustrophobic lanes like mindless fish, occasionally gawking at shop windows choking the flow helplessly into clogged flotsam like chunks of yellow fat in a dying man’s arteries. The tension, the bad energy of frantic day trippers, pushing down into…
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Venice, 2am, my first night in the city
Venice, 2am, my first night in the city. My first night in Venice I was exhausted. Our flight had been cancelled the night before and we had been stranded in Dusseldorf. A long and tiring travel day, it was dark before we landed outside the city. And definitely our bedtime by the time we…
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Day 127 – Odense, Denmark
After our culinary adventure in Copenhagen, we visited a good friend of Katy’s that she met hiking the Pacific Crest Trail who lives in a the neighboring town of Odense (oðˀn̩sə sounds something like ‘O-then-se’). She loaned us her apartment for our entire visit! Thanks Louise! It’s a beautiful little town that was the…
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Day 123 – Copenhagen, Denmark
This was my first time in Scandinavia and I came away with a good time and a desire to return. Copenhagen was modern, environmentally conscious, traditional but open to new ideas, grounded but not stodgy. We stayed in the Meat Packing District near the train station which was hip and young and the New…
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NOMA – February 4, 2020 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
NOMA was awarded the Best Restaurant in the World 2010-2012 and 2014 (currently #2 in 2019), two Michelin stars, and its chef and creator Rene Redzepi almost single handedly has changed the face of Nordic cuisine and started the local foraged ingredient trend in restaurants across the world. He relentlessly innovates and invests both…
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Day 119 – Cologne (Köln), Germany
I have long had a fascination with this German city. Kölsch is my favorite beer and I have a deep fondness for German style pub food, especially the kinds you can find in Köln. Truth be told I came here to eat and drink. That’s pretty much as far as I had thought it…