Having eaten all the pickled herring we can manage during our time in Norway, we’re in Peppe’s Pizza, an “American style” restaurant a bit off the beaten track in downtown Bergen. In the end, the “American style” here refers only to crust types:...
Usually, when someone says, “I just ate the best [insert dish here] ever,” he or she is exaggerating for special effect. Most of the time, that means nothing more than, “I just had a pretty great meal.” So it’s with...
I propose the “Actual Engagement Index” — a way to rate the quality of a bus or van tour of any size not by what sites are visited … but by establishing a ratio between the time you spend engaged with a site vs. the time you spend getting there. I...
“Wherever we go, we will go together, and I will be your home.” — from our wedding vows What does home mean to you? For more than seven thousand years, people have called the Shetland Islands home. The more ancient the people, the less we know about...
Tourists, the people primarily responsible for converting charming destinations into tourist traps (cough San Antonio cough), often complain that they want to go somewhere that “isn’t quite so touristed.” We found such a place yesterday:...
The bus drops us in front of the tiny tourist office in Vestmanna, a village in the remote Faroe Islands. There’s not much inside — a restaurant serving fish soup, a gift shop selling plush puffins. Out back, a pier. At the pier, a tiny boat. Our...
The paan — a green betel leaf, folded into a tight, triangular package the size and shape of a child’s paper football — lies in the palm of your hand, fragrant and bulging. You should know what’s inside it, because you...
Come try a Scotch egg with me! You aren’t likely to find Scotch eggs at the local Piggly Wiggly. We found our very first one in the bustling Borough Market, where locals nosh on everything from butchered boar to ox tail soup to goat cheese ice...
Update as of 7/29/2015: An upgrade to this app fixed all problems, and, while it works slowly, it does indeed work now. As a long-time Spotify user, I’ve built up a collection of dozens of playlists containing thousands of songs. Recreating...
