Eat & Travel
I live to eat and travel! My favourite passions!
The Co-pilot and I love to travel and together we’ve been lucky to have been to few special places around the world (some of which I’ve written posts about), including:
ASIA PACIFIC
- Around Australia (of course)
- China (Guang Dong, Shanghai & Shenzen)
- Hong Kong
- Japan (Kyoto & Tokyo)
- Macau
- New Zealand (Auckland, most of the South Island, Waiheke Island)
- Singapore
- Taiwan (Taipei)
- Thailand (Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Pai, Krabi, Koh Tao)
- Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh, Mekong, Phu Quoc)
CENTRAL AMERICA
- Costa Rica (San Jose, Puerto Viejo, Arenal)
- Nicaragua (San Juan del Sur, Granada, Little Corn Island)
- Panama (Panama City, Bocas de Toro)
EUROPE
- Finland (Helsinki)
- Italy (Rome, Amalfi Coast, Napoli, Sicily)
NORTH AMERICA
- Miami
SOUTH AMERICA
- Argentina (Buenos Aires, Salta)
- Bolivia (Amazon, La Paz, Uyuni)
- Chile (San pedro de Atacama)
- Peru (Cusco, Lima, Machu Picchu)
But of course, there is always room to squeeze in yet more experiences!
I find it’s often too easy to default to an easy destination when planning holidays. Ours is Thailand – what’s not to love about cheap and delicious food and travel, lovely people, stunning island getaways and cheap massages and cocktails?
To ensure that we don’t default to a Thai island holiday option every year (although that’s not a bad option at all), I have a top 5 desired travel destinations list – these are the places I’d most like to get to in the near future and I remind myself about them every time we plan a holiday. The list has been updated over the years, but it currently stands at:
- Brazil
- New York
- Paris
- Santorini
- Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
I often share this with friends and when our top 5 places match, we plot a holiday together!
So, what are your top 5 desired holiday destinations?
If you’d like to share, please leave a comment below!
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I’ll give you a bunch of top 5′s:
My favorite places in the world:
1. Paris
2. Rio
3. Tokyo
4. San Francisco
5. Madrid
Up Next:
1. China
2. Israel
3. South Africa
4. Vietnam
5. New Orleans
Best food:
1. Paris
2. Bangkok
3. Los Angeles
4. Tokyo
5. Rio
Can’t wait to go back:
1. Tokyo
2. Paris
3. Sydney
4. Thailand
5. Spain
The country that delighted me the most, unexpectedly, in the food department was Sri Lanka.
It’s not quite as sophisticated and delicately interwoven as, say, Thai or Malaysian cuisine… but it is riotously flavorful and over the top… and completely native and unique… it’s own unique Island cuisine with a lot of fish and sea food… and tons of choice tropical fruit… and a bounty of dry spices… it’s the land where cinnamon and cardamon are native to. They have an AMAZING tropical botanical garden outside of Kandy.
They love to hit the extremes of the flavor spectrum… a blazing hot meat curry, puckering soul fish dish, a zingy ginger beer and a killer cake or pudding.
Okay, I’ve been to most of the places on your wishlist and I have to say Brazil (not great for food) however so much fun and the people more than make up for the lack of flavour. Also my tip is hang out in Leblon as Ipanema and Coppacabana is really touristy. I thought Buenos Aires was much better for food, in terms of variety and flavour. I don’t want to food bash Brazil too much, they do have some very unique things on offer like their Churasco (meat-fest BBQ) and their northern coast with it’s African influenced food is interesting too.
Go forth Forager! and Blog about it for our enjoyment
x
Hey Isaac – Long time no speak! Boy, you two are quite the accomplished travellers! Rio for food huh? Interesting – wouldn’t have picked that one, but I’m game – as for the others – yes please. Why are we limited with so few days of annual leave? And being American how do you achieve this at all with your 2 weeks leave??
Hey Brett – Sri Lanka was definitely not on my radar, but after your comment I also saw Rick Stein’s travels through Sri Lanka and now my interest is well and truly piqued..one day..
Hey Ice-creem-grrl – Ah, my thoughts exactly on Brazil for food – rice and beans and meat right? I’d love to go during Carnivale!
We have similar interests. Eating and travelling
Was a massive surprise…..
Just back from Sri Lanka and it ranks and equal 1st with Bulgaria as far as food goes for me…..
Bulgaria has the best food in Europe
I was squeezing in a good 5 meals a day in Sri Lanka also. Without doubt the tastiest crab ive ever had. I still rate Tasmanias seafood as the best in the world all around though…..
Ed
Sorry – late to the party on this one. My alteration to your top 5 wouild be give Ha Long Bay a miss. A tourist trap in the truest sense of the word. Instead get a tour company to take you a bit further along to it’s sister – Bai Tu Long Bay. We went for a 2/3 day cruise. We had – no lie – a whole junk boat to ourselves (Would normally carry about 40 people, a tourguide/interpreter to ourselves, all the food and drink as well.
I too wanted to visit Ha Long Bay but take our advice and discover thie lettle secret.
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