The very first mouthful was enough to change my personal food landscape forever. The savoury-ness from the chickeny, spicy broth was both intense and soothing. The chilli rapidly creeps up on your unsuspecting tongue but it is the perfect accompaniment to a glass of cold beer and a dish of white...

Possessed men hissing like snakes with swords stuck through their faces are hard to upstage - especially by something as mundane as fried tofu.

But so far, the fried tofu here at the Phuket Vegetarian Festival has impressed me more than the mutilations.  During the festival, Phuket town becomes...

Cordoba

Expectating to find a city to rival Buenos Aires, bustling with students preparing to indulge in the legendary nightlife we were lost for words when we found ourselves in a city that would best be described as a ghost town. It was so quiet there may as well have been dust-balls rolling...

One of the personal qualities in which I take pride is the fact that I can adapt to a number of different places and situations with ease.

So I don't want to sound like a whiner or a prima donna when I ask: Is it possible to get some green vegetables here?!

I'm not a picky eater, but I do like...

So after being first on the plane, first off the plane, somehow managing to be last in line and taking I finally got to meet Helena's father.  Antonio, and his wife Rosarinha, were both super hospitable to us and took us all over Central Portugal.  I found out that the Portugese are just as...

Melbourne (Australia) is my hometown. However it is possible to travel without leaving Melbourne by eating some of the different cuisines from around the world that are available. These are some of the many eateries where I have been a return customer.

1. Yuriya Teppanyaki Restaurant

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Food and drink play an integral part of the Spanish culture,  just as they do in most countries.  The Spanish love nothing more than meeting in large groups at restaurants and cafés to pick over a wide array of tapas dishes and talk (loudly).  

The home cooked meal is also still...

I never went overseas growing up. I never traveled with my parents. I did visit a variety of locations around Australia on holiday.

Let's start at the beginning. I'm Anita Morris and I grew up in suburban Melbourne. I have two parents, and a younger brother.

Growing up in Melbourne means that you hold...

I've been back about a week now. Slowly I'm getting over my re-entry shock. In some ways going to Vienna was part of the re-entry process. It was a city I'd been to 3 years ago, so some places were familiar to me, including the hostel I was staying at and the Turkish restaurant around the corner....

Arriving at Santiago airport at 7am bleary-eyed, after a 12 and a half hour flight, I was particularly relieved I could speak Spanish. The airport is like every other airport I've ever been to, except full of touts offering you taxis, minibuses and colectivos, which are sort of a cross between the...