Valentinas Travels

  For once, I'm not writing about a trip today. Well, actually I do! A culinary journey. Since we can't get enough of travelling, we have set ourselves a new challenge: We eat ourselves once around the world. Our " A-Z Dinner Challenge " works like this: We look for restaurants with different country cuisines from A-Z in Zurich and surroundings. I will report on these culinary journeys here. I'm sure there will be some good new discoveries and I'm curious to see where the journey will take me!  -------------------------------------------- Yesterday we started with the letter A. Armenia? Azerbaijan? No, today the Challenge took us culinarily to Afgahnistan, namely to the " Afghan Anar " in Zurich.  The "Afghan Anar" may be known by its streetfood past. But the restaurant who is located very central at Limmatplatz is also worth a visit! A modern restaurant with traditional influences. For example, there are niches where y...

If I had been asked a few months ago what came to my mind about Bali, I probably would have answered: "tourists and garbage". I would never have thought that I would end up in Bali that fast. But in the search for a suitable destination to escape the coming winter cold, we finally chose Bali.  During the 2 weeks on this Indonesian island I could overcome a lot of my prejudices. We experienced an island on which much was very well organized, on which the culture is still celebrated like hardly anywhere else and on incredibly friendly inhabitants. We were able to test our skills in chaotic traffic and learned that it is not that complicated if you just go with the flow. Here are my experiences.  Even if the flight time is quite long (6h to Dubai, 9h to Bali), we had a comfortable flight with Emirates and landed in Denpasar in the late evening. A taxi brought us to our airport hotel in Kuta. We stayed just for one night and the next day ordered a taxi via the app ...