Earlier this month, we travelled to Prague, Salzburg (with a day trip to Hallstatt), Vienna and Budapest for a vacation I’ve dreamt of for many years. Having always wanted to explore the beautiful Christmas Markets all over Europe, I went with high expectations and they were beyond exceeded. After being forced to cancel this trip…
Travel
A week in Istanbul and Cappadocia
In the last couple of years, I know of a number of people who’ve been to Turkey and come back with incredible stories. But though it’s been on my bucket list for a while, it wasn’t the first place we thought of visiting while vaguely talking about a holiday somewhere in Europe for the summer….
A week in Russia
A little over thirty years ago, my parents spent the early years of their life together in what was then Leningrad in the Soviet Union. They have tales of rejoicing when they saw cauliflower, taking bananas as gifts for their friends, comical mix-ups between similar sounding Russian words and more than anything, stories of my very…
Udaipur’s Old City
I’ve been to Udaipur many, many times in the four years that I’ve been married to a guy who grew up there, so you’d think a food-sightseeing-shopping post about it would have been up here a long time ago. Some of you have written to me for recommendations on where to go and what to do,…
Bangkok, Phuket and Vegetarian Heaven
Fish sauce is my mortal enemy. Mix it into a vegetarian dish and you’re pretty much holding my hair back while I spend the rest of the holiday in the bathroom. So, when three of us, all vegetarians, decided to go to Thailand for a vacation, it invited a lot of laughter and “OMG BUT WHAT ON EARTH…