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Where to eat in San Pedro la Laguna

August 26, 2011 Central America
Where to Eat in San Pedro la Laguna

After my trek with Quetzaltrekkers from Xela to Lake Atitlan, I was more than ready for some R&R. And the lakeside town of San Pedro la Laguna was the perfect place to do just that.

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Living on fried chicken in Guatemala

July 18, 2011 Central America
Pollo Campero in Guatemala

I’m going to be honest with you. I found the food in Guatemala pretty…underwhelming.

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Photo Friday: Nachos at Nick’s

July 15, 2011 Food
Nachos at Nick's in San Pedro la Laguna Guatemala

Ok. I’m going to admit something here. I have a sensitive stomach. So when I travel, I am usually hugely cautious about food.

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Making masala chai

June 25, 2011 Food
Making authentic chai

These days I find it difficult to believe that in the not-so-distant-past I didn’t like tea. I was a coffee drinker through and through. In fact, I could count on one hand the number of days on which I’d not had a coffee since the age of about eight years old. I even remember my first [...]

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Planning a trip to the Mongolian Countryside

How to plan a trip across Mongolia

May 4, 2011 Destinations

Ulaanbaatar is a pretty grim city so my first order of business when I arrived on the train from Beijing (aside from finding something to eat that wasn’t sweet bread, vegemite or bananas) was to figure out how to get out of Ulaanbaatar.

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Eating: Middle East

August 10, 2010 Destinations

Not that I’m dwelling on it, but it’s relevant for any post about food or eating: after we got sick in Syria, it lingered. Especially around Alicia, who didn’t take antibiotics. So the Middle East turned out not to be the culinary adventure we were hoping for. While breakfast was included in pretty much all [...]

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Photo Friday #4: Turkey

June 18, 2010 Food

One of the most popular activities to do in Fethiye, Turkey, aside from going on a blue cruise, is to head down to the fish market in the evening, purchase a fish in the market and take it to one of the surrounding restaurants who will cook it and serve it to you with salad [...]

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