This post is part of a series called Iceland 2016 Our first full day in Iceland, and we packed in a lot. Despite the perpetual light, we slept very well in our RV. We woke up and had some instant coffee with yogurt and granola, while the camper shook from the wind. Then it was…
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This post is part of a series called Iceland 2016 So, Iceland then. This is a different kind of trip for us. As in, it’s not primarily centered around eating and hedonism. This time, it’s rocks and lava. Not that we have anything against the Icelandic hot dogs of course. We left Minnesota late on…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Eventually, gluttony catches up with you. Today was that day, for me at least. I’m not sure whether I actually got sick, or if my body just decided to revolt against me, but it meant today was a pretty slow day. It wasn’t a total…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 We kicked today off in a leisurely fashion, with a stroll to a kopitam (food-stall-and-coffee-place) for chicken and rice and a random noodle dish. Then we went on to our real destination, the “Blue Mansion,” a Mansion (now a hotel) built by the one-time richest…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 A while back, a friend of a friend connected us with someone in Penang who does food tours. We’d already booked our first tour at that point but thought it’d be fun to have another take on things, so we arranged a private tour with…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Today was cooking class day. We were picked up from our apartment at 9 am and were taken to a wet market for a tour. We were joined by two women from Hong Kong, a couple from Australia, and two men from England. Our cooking…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Today got off to a bit of a disjointed start – I’d managed to conflate our food tour with our cooking class. The latter starts at 9am and is on Monday, the former started at 5pm and was today. I had convinced myself that the…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 This morning Colin woke up early to unbolt the giant wooden front door to “our” shop. It turns out, our apartment is a traditional Chinese shop – with the store in the front room, and the living quarters upstairs. If a customer walked all the…
View MoreThis post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Today was mostly consumed with getting from the Perhentians to Penang. We got up early to catch the ferry, the took a bus to the Kota Bharu airport. That put us at the airport too early for our flight, so we paid ($3/each!) to get…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 This morning was mostly a repeat of yesterday – up early, quick breakfast, then going our separate ways for a bit. After grabbing an extra cup of coffee, I decided to take my Kindle down the shore a ways. Now, I’m a pretty non-confrontational guy…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Day three on the island. Walls are closing in. Everything’s gone gray. You think you know? You don’t. Wait no, different island. On this one, we got up early so Kat could prep for her dive. Breakfast was roti canai at our hotel (resort? Where’s…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Today was day one of SCUBA for Kat, which meant a “refresher dive” to get checked out by the instructor. We had breakfast (roti canai and naan) and then went our separate ways. As an aside, the restaurant uses appropriately large coffee mugs. While Kat…
View MoreThis post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Today was mostly about travel, from Kuala Lumpur to Perhentian Besar island on the northeast coast of Malaysia. We met back up with our Uber driver from yesterday for a lift to the airport, then took a quick flight to the other side of the…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Today was our day to explore Kuala Lumpur, before continuing on to the islands. We headed out from our hotel in the general direction of “Little India”. We stopped along the way for breakfast in a more traditional Malay neighborhood. After standing awkwardly outside of…
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 I’m currently wearing pajamas. But they’re not my pajamas. They’re loaner pajamas. Such is the wonder of flying in the front row. Thanks to a generous donation of frequent flyer miles from Steve and Judy, we’re currently sitting in fancy-pants seats, wearing slippers, and sipping……
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This post is part of a series called Malaysia 2015 Tomorrow morning, we’ll be heading to Malaysia on our honeymoon. This will be our first time in Southeast Asia together, and we’re pretty excited to eat, explore, and drip with scooter exhaust scented sweat. This is the traditional “where we’re going and what we’re doing…
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This post is part of a series called Barcelona 2015 This morning, we had two missions. Mission the first: good churros with chocolate. Mission accomplished, thanks the helpful mini-guide that Sandra gave us yesterday. We took the metro to Xurreria Trebol and ate a healthy breakfast of fried things dipped in liquid chocolate. Mission number…
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This post is part of a series called Barcelona 2015 Up until today, we’ve been living pretty healthy lives in Barcelona. Plenty of walking, and only eating small tapas and sane amounts of pastry. Clearly, this situation could not be allowed to stand. Enter the Culinary Backstreets Made By The Mediterranean tour. We met our…
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