Category: Food Journals
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What I ate in BAVARIA – A Food Journal
Bavaria is the slice of Germany that you have always fantasized about; filled with lush forests, impressive alps, fairy tale castles, and mighty medieval towns. It is a very special state of Germany in which they even have their own dialect. Bavaria is where Munich is located, which hosts the world’s biggest party every September,…
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What I Ate & Drank in TEMECULA, CALIFORNIA – A Food & Wine Journal
I had just returned from an almost month long trip to Greece and Egypt when a few friends and I rolled into Temecula, California for a ‘Girl’s Wine Weekend’. I believe that weekend was what they call a “Live Hard – Play Hard” trip. I added one more verse to that slogan and ‘Crashed Hard’…
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What I ate in BELGIUM – A Food Journal
Eating and drinking your way through a country can be a fulfilling expedition, especially if you combine the food in with the culture. While I was in Belgium, I had a list of foods that I wanted to try. They were either traditional dishes or found at the one of the oldest establishments. Then there…
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What I ate in BRUSSELS – A Food Journal
Eating my way through a city is not uncommon, especially in a city where the food is part of the culture. I love to eat, and love to learn about culture; Brussels was just one of those cities that had it all. This is a city where I could go back to again, and eat…
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What I ate in NEW JERSEY – A Food Journal
Life is funny when it comes to traveling. In the last couple of years, I did not expect to travel into New Jersey as many times as I did. It just happened. I ventured North into Morris Country, down into Atlantic City, and on to the Southern tip of Cape May. Once you leave the…
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What I ate in THE NETHERLANDS – A Food Journal
This is how I ate my way through The Netherlands. On my last visit to this well loved country, I travelled outside of Amsterdam and into the cities of Den Haag, Delft, Arnhem, and Maastricht. There were museums and city sights that I wanted to see, and all this delicious food came in-between. From my…
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What I ate in AMSTERDAM – A Food Journal
It was my second visit to Amsterdam, and this time I was on my own and stayed longer than a day. I gave myself several days of museum hopping, tip toeing through the tulips, and straight up eating. I had a list of places that I wanted to try, and I hit all of them.…
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What I ate in LUXEMBOURG – A Food Journal
Luxembourg Gastronomy, I wish I had more time to dive into it. This was another country that I need to re-visit with a more serious focus on their cuisine. I only had a couple of days out in Luxembourg City because I had to play catch up with a bit of writing. Everything worked out…
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What I ate in ESTONIA – A Food Journal
Crossing into Tallinn, Estonia by bus from Riga, Latvia marked a huge travel milestone for me. It was the moment that I had accomplished one of my big travel goals; to visit every Baltic State, Eastern European, and Balkan country. I did it in four years from the time that I fell in love with…
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What I ate in LITHUANIA – A Food Journal
When I dined in Vilnius, I dined well. The cuisine in Lithuania revolves around a heavier and natural food source such as meat, root vegetables, mushrooms, and berries. Everything was fresh and local, and my O-Type blood was fed quite well. From eating a Hesburger with a travel day friend, to eating at the oldest…
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What I ate in LATVIA – A Food Journal
Riga has my heart and after my visit, my stomach as well. My heart because I love Art Nouveau architecture and Riga has the highest concentration of Art Nouveau buildings in the world. My stomach because I loved all the food that I ate in Riga, simple as that. From finding the greatest chicken meatball…
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What I ate in BELARUS – A Food Journal
Belarus was an intriguing country, I will give it that. I did enjoy my time there, and never felt unsafe during my visit in 2019. Not to long before my arrival, Belarus had just opened up Visa-Free to 75+ countries, including the USA. The only catch was that you had to enter and leave from…
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What I ate in SLOVENIA – A Food Journal
After traveling for six weeks straight and visiting thirteen countries, memories start blending into one big blur. Fortunately due to my photo journaling, a detailed iteniary, my Yelp reviews, and blogging, it has all helped me sort out those blending memories. Now there are a couple of countries that did stand out, where the memories…
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What I ate in SLOVAKIA – A Food Journal
The struggle was real! I was passing through Slovakia on the way to Prague, and decided to spend one night in the beautiful old city of Bratislava. While I was there it became a struggle of ‘Should I wander’ vs. ‘Should I eat’. I only had about seven waking hours in Bratislava, and the struggle…
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What I ate in MONTENEGRO – A Food Journal
There are not many places in this world that I can say that I would love to return to and stay awhile. Actually, there are only a couple of “True Love” destinations for me and the Kotor Bay in Montenegro is one of them. The bay is breathtaking with little medieval villages that line the…
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What I ate in the BALKANS – Part 2 – A Food Journal
I am “real” and so are my food journals. There are times when I travel and I eat great things, and other times the food is just ordinary. While traveling through the Balkans, there were times that I ate whatever was available, and it was uneventful. That is life and that is travel. This…
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What I ate in THE BALKANS – Part 1 – A Food Journal
Over the last five years, I had traveled to every Eastern European and Balkan country- Hooray! This also means that I had tasted and journaled a lot of interesting cuisine along the way. This food journal covers three of those Balkan countries: Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Croatia. As I traveled from country to country,…
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What I ate in UKRAINE – A Food Journal
I swear, I could not find a lot of traditional Ukrainian food or Chicken Kiev, which I did find in Minsk, Belarus! I was only in Ukraine for a few days and had a busy schedule, so I tried to find restaurants in the areas that I would be in. I had a list of…
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What I ate in HUNGARY – A Food Journal
First of all, I would like to make it clear that I must return to Hungary. There were many other things that I needed to do and many more foods to try. I was in Budapest for only a few days, as I was making my way through Eastern Europe and the Balkans. My visit…
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What I ate in ALASKA – A Food Journal
My friends and I had road tripped through Alaska, with me at the wheel. It was not until I created this food journal, that I realized how much we ate. Journaling your food certainly puts into perspective what you ate, and how much you ate. We had many amazing meals while in Alaska, and made…
Trixie Navarre 