Flashback: Brazil

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Truco! We shouted over and over again. Truco! Truco! Truco! It was as though no time had passed from our first meeting a year before.  Just as we had before, we sat around a table playing cards, unable to peel ourselves away from the game of tricks. Truco is a popular card game in Brazil, [...]

Haven’t we meet before?

Haven’t we meet before?

The world is a small place, even on the road, and it’s not unusual for us to run into people again on this journey. Usually it is within the same country, but in Chengdu we were fortunate enough to run into our couchsurfing hosts from Buenos Aires. Of course it wasn’t exactly serendipity (no frozen [...]

How we became Italian, in Georgia

How we became Italian, in Georgia

It all started with a heavyset, jolly Russian mini-bus driver. Surrounded by minibus drivers the moment we stepped from the taxi, he was the only one of the group going north to Kazbegi. Georgian isn’t an alphabet that we understand, so basically we’re like children, asking 1000 times which direction to go even though we [...]

Foodie Friday – Dessert for Birthday Breakfast

Foodie Friday – Dessert for Birthday Breakfast

In honor of a very special birthday (that would be my own) today we woke up to a wonderful breakfast of milk tart pie made special for us by our CS hosts (the same ones with which we started our South African adventure). It is a South African Milk Tart and it made for a [...]