Trieste – the blended city
Foreigners Everywhere Part 3 Travelling northeast by train from Venice we find ourselves in the seaport of Trieste, close to the border with Slovenia. Proudly Italian I’m told, but a…
On the Indian food trail
Dubai is full of glitzy, expensive restaurants but there is another side to this food-loving city that is easy to overlook. Old Dubai, is crammed with Indian street food sellers, artisan food producers, family–run restaurants and ethnic grocery stores, offering authentic regional specialities at bargain prices, but where to start? We have made tentative inroads to this other world but knowing where to go and what to order requires some serious insider knowledge. Enter Frying Pan Adventures, a small, local tour company started and run by two food-loving sisters, Farida and Arva Ahmed. (more…)