First try of Adjar Khatchapuri — the pride and joy of Georgia’s national cuisine: a cheesy pie with cheese and egg and butter. Welcome, heart attack – nice to meet you. Location: Turtle Lake, Tbilisi.
We’ve spent more than one day in Tirana, Albania — three days, in fact! — and found it to be a very pleasant experience to amble between our coffee shop of choice, several green spaces in downtown area, and a few monuments and notable buildings. Tirana is not going to win any awards for the…
Enjoying some street food, at some festival, in the city hall area in Seoul, South Korea.
Drinking a Bia Hoi (20 cent draft beer, which is absolutely delicious) in Hanoi — this should be a #1 activity on your list. Even if you don’t do beer. We’ve gone a couple of times, and its always a colorful experience. As long as you aren’t in a big crowd, plenty of locals will…
Will you look at this duck?! Most delicious meal at Kispiac Bizstro in Budapest – we rarely do this, but we ate there twice. Ridiculously delicious. As is all the food we’ve tried in Hungary. If you have no other reasons to come to this beautiful city — do it for the food. Do it…
Founded: 1628 Pop: 974,000 Train station in Krasnoyarsk We rolled into Krasnoyarsk at 7:30 am local time / 3:30 am Moscow time. In just 6 days we conquered 4 time zones. Luckily train is conducive to sleeping so the jetlag was hardly noticeable. Notable fact: we shelled out the big bucks for our 34-hour ride…
Traveling on a budget meant that we skipped on some of the luxuries that we would normally indulge in on shorter trips. For the most part our sacrifices were in the entertainment category – aka historical sights with exorbitant admission prices were out, as were most of the ‘adventure’ activities, such as ziplines or hot…