Category: Travel
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Canada – Maritime Provinces!
This continues on from New Hampshire & Maine! There are three “Maritime Provinces” in Canada: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Combined with Newfoundland, the four are referred to as the “Atlantic Provinces”. The direct flight distance from Fredericton (capital of New Brunswick) to St John’s (capital of Newfoundland) is around 1,100 kilometres,…
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Boston – We Eat At The Chef’s Bar!
This continues on from New York – Central Park & Environs! Today we pick up a hire car and set off for 29 days of driving. We will spend too little time in many places, however, our trip is not just about sightseeing. A major factor behind our itinerary is for Rhonda to catch up…
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New York City – Central Park & Environs!
This continues on from New York – Lower Manhattan! With only one day left in New York, there was much we had planned to do but could not fit in. We concentrated on the Central Park area. The weather was chilly and overcast, with rain from time to time, making good photography difficult. Empanadas for…
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New York City – Lower Manhattan!
This continues on from New York – The Big Cheesecake! With the jet lag under control, we would spend our second full day sightseeing in Lower Manhattan. We would do a lot of walking and we would also experience two of Brandon’s restaurant suggestions (see first NYC blog post). High Line Walk This was a…
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New York City – The Big Cheesecake!
This continues on from New York – Settling In! New York may well be called the Big Apple, but if it were to have a signature dish my guess it would be ‘cheesecake’. This blog post is about a cheesecake, a strawberry blonde one. You hear about my first encounter with it and our experience…
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New York City – Settling In!
We name certain restaurants and establishments in some blog posts simply because we enjoyed them, not for promotional reasons. “On the road” for six weeks Olive’s Kitchen will seem more like a travel blog than a food blog for the next few weeks. But there will still be plenty of food and wine experiences to…
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Indigo Valley – Home Grown Produce!
Several years ago, Barry and Liz wound up their professional jobs in teaching and accounting-law in East Gippsland, and moved to the Indigo Valley in north-eastern Victoria. That enabled them to relocate to Liz’s family home and farm, where several siblings live nearby. We recently made the four hour trip up from Melbourne to see…
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Hoi An Banh Mi – The World’s Best Sandwich?
This post about banh mi is a continuation from Hoi An: The Food! A ‘sandwich’ that is distinctly Vietnamese Later in this post we will give our method for making a banh mi (pronounced ‘barn mee’) that is truly yummy and clearly in the Vietnamese style. It isn’t a traditional recipe, but it encapsulates…
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Hoi An – The Food!
This post is a continuation from Hoi An: The Sights! Not only is Hoi An a delight to spend time in because it is attractive, charming and a sanctuary of peacefulness but it is also a great food destination. We were taken on a street food tour, visited markets, spent three hours bike riding…