Food Archives - The Barefoot Backpacker

Drinking Kava in Vanuatu

2018/09/30 2018/09/30 0

Vanuatu is not a country noted for its beer. It has Tusker, a generic lager, which also comes in lemon flavour and is surprisingly perky and easier to drink than its blander brother. Instead, Vanuatu has a drink known as ‘kava’ (not in any way related to the French sparkling …

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Far Far Away

Malekula Island – An overview

2018/08/16 2018/08/16 0

When I was researching places to visit in Vanuatu, the island of Malekula stood out as a definite must-see; it seemed to tick lots of preference-boxes – hiking, culture, scenery, history. I’ll write other posts about these aspects specifically, but I ended up spending 7 days on the island and, …

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All The Small Things

Beer in the USA

2018/06/03 2018/06/03 6

People on Twitter have always asked me ‘Why am I not a beer blogger?’, given that I’ll often post images of beer on Twitter or Instagram Stories, or that I’ll be in a pub during a Twitter travel chat, or that I’ll often mention beer as being a common part …

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Moving On Up

An example of poor airline food

2014/11/18 2017/08/07 0

Dear Royal Air Maroc, Sorry, but the food on the flight from Paris to Casablanca was the least inspiring airline food I think I’ve ever had. Two small potatoes and a piece of dry chicken (even if it was coated in a kind of spicy dressing), a bread roll, a …

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In the Bleak Mid-Winter...

Day 20 : A short post mentioning Lisa’s Birthday

2014/06/17 2017/07/24 0

Monday 16 June 2014 BMQ : 100% again. Lisa unimpressed. Ah, birthdays. It might seem strange that my trip to Australia was planned to coincide with Lisa’s birthday, bearing in mind that I don’t celebrate my own, but I thought it would be the nice and sensible thing to do; …

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1,001 Empenadas

Day 09 : Wild Wild East

2014/05/26 2017/07/24 0

(as an aside, Pisco Elqui does have streetlights. Just not very many and they’re not very bright.) I have now passed the longest time I’ve ever spent ‘travelling’, which was about 22-23 days when I went on a tour group to China in 2002. Note however that since I spent …

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Bottled Water – observation

2014/05/25 2017/07/23 0

This is only a small thing, but I’ve noticed on my travels an obsession with bottled water being fizzy as standard. I first really noticed it in Ukraine, but here in Chile it’s just exacerbated. Basically, it seems that if you ask for water, they give you fizzy. You seem …

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Street Food Haiku

2014/05/20 2017/07/23 0

The Empenada / Not as good as a pasty / But does fill a hole

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Nice place, if you like potatoes

2014/05/14 2017/07/23 0

Mmmm, ‘bubblegum & marshmallow’ flavoured ice-cream. Cheap and definitely useful on a warm day. Ice-cream seems to be quite common across Eastern Europe, although as the above flavour was bought from a park stall on the May Day holiday in a popular park in Bucharest, I’m not sure if the …

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The rarity of mushrooms?

2014/05/14 2017/07/23 0

As an aside, it’s interesting how much more expensive anything with mushrooms was in Belarus. If a large slice of pie cost around 40,000 Rubles, a large slice of pie containing mushrooms was often more than double that. I have no idea why; I don’t imagine mushrooms are any harder …

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