This post will be on our neighbourhood and include both practical info as well as reviews of the best the area has to offer.
Aug
02
Each day as we walk through Alphabet City and the East Village, our ‘home’ for two weeks, the main language we hear on the streets and in the grocery stores is Spanish. A large percentage of the local population is from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Ecuador, and every restaurant kitchen seems to be …
Jul
18
“Hello! Hello!” two skinny little kids call out as they peek from behind a dilapidated brick wall, a short distance down the lane from our Balinese villa. “Hello!!!” we shout back and they smile shyly and scurry away. Opposite, at the entrance to another home, a young woman looks up from sweeping her cement courtyard with …
Jun
27
As part of our quest to get beneath the skin of places we’re visiting, this year is about exploring neighbourhoods, rather that ticking off sights. We won’t be going to see the Imperial Palace (we visited it on our first trip years ago), just as we didn’t see the need to climb the Eiffel Tower …
Apr
22
Arty Montmartre may have been depicted in countless paintings by artists like Toulouse-Lautrec and Utrillo, and starred in movies such as Moulin-Rouge and Amélie, but still it must be one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented of Paris neighbourhoods. Too easily dismissed as touristy by those who haven’t taken the time to get to know …
Apr
15
Ceret’s Saturday markets are one of the highlights of a visit to the village – people come from far and wide to browse them – and as last weekend was the first time the place had really experienced fine spring weather, the whole place was simply buzzing. We were warned that we would barely be …
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