Today’s feature travel video from Sofia, Bulgaria is from a popular restaurant ‘Made In Home’ where we sampled Rakia, Bulgarian beer, carrot soup, goat cheese cranberry/fig salad, fish and fig cheesecake for lunch. Although we only had three full days in Sofia, we quickly realized this city is a gourmands paradise. From four cheese pizzas [...]
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Our latest transportation travel video showcases our train ride from Istanbul, Turkey to Sofia, Bulgaria. Recently we had experienced a train derailment en route from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, Thailand. In hindsight, we felt shell-shocked and our initial sense of feeling naively safe and secure traveling by train (as opposed to any other method of [...]
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On a quest to try as many authentic Finnish foods as possible, we ended up visiting an outdoor terrace which served Reindeer meat and samplers of Finnish beers in Helsinki, Finland. I have to admit, sinking my teeth into Reindeer cold cuts felt terribly wrong. Growing up, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was one of [...]
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Never shying away from trying new exotic delights in Finland, we grabbed a package of Finnish Salmiakki, known as black salty licorice, to sample in a ‘fear factor’ type of taste test: many foreigners have spat it out on the first try. Salty liquorice, known in Finnish as Salmiakki or Salmiak, is a type of [...]
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Today’s feature adventure travel video is of a ferry boat boat ride we took from Macau to Hong Kong, China via HydroFoil TurboJet. (These are some photos I took in 2011 when the weather was nicer!) I was excited to take Audrey on this particular HyrdroFoil ferry – a journey that I had completed several [...]
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Today’s feature travel video is of us packing our belongings and moving out of our apartment in Chiang Mai, Thailand along with a flight en route to Macau, China with Air Asia. I’m still in a state of shock that our time has expired in Chiang Mai. I can still vividly remember the day we [...]
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Given that it was a Buddhist holiday in Bangkok, Thailand, we decided to visit Wat Saket Temple (The Golden Mount Temple) as an afternoon outing. Initially our travel plans were to check out Wat Arun (also known as the Temple of Dawn); however, our queasy stomachs (after a bad episode of food poisoning) were suggesting [...]
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On our second day exploring Helsinki, Finland we give you a tour around the city with some suggested things to do in the downtown area along with a visit to Market Square to sample some Finnish food including Reindeer meatballs, grilled Salmon, potatoes, vegetables and garlic sauce. Our second day started bright and early as [...]
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We’re typically fond of quirky and/or heritage types of hotels, so when we had the chance to stay at Katajanokka Hotel (a former prison jail house) in Helsinki, Finland, we jumped at the opportunity. We’ve stayed in a diverse cross section of hotels during our travels, ranging from heritage hotels in George Town, Penang to [...]
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After a long trip starting in Bangkok, Thailand we finally arrived in Helsinki, Finland where we discuss our first impressions of the city/country on the very first day of our travel schedule in Europe. Our nearly 24 hour journey from Bangkok to Helsinki (including a stopover in Istanbul, Turkey) had us feeling worn out and [...]
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