On Monday the 21st of May we arrived in Crete. Crete! You know, King Minos, the minotaur and the Labyrinth. Crete was nothing like I expected. I'm not sure what exactly I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting a dry, desert-ey place. Anyways. I really like where we are staying cause it's in the old …
Bia Hoi
by Neil So, Hanoi has this great tradition, custom, ritual, whatever you wish to call it called Bia Hoi. This translates as "New Beer" and it's pretty straight forward. Beer is brewed at the brewery in Hanoi with no preservatives added, so the beer has a shelf life of less than 24 hours. Vendors collect …
Ginger Beer (part 1)
This is a blog post about... (wait for it) GINGER BEER!! Throughout my travels, I have found that I love ginger beer. From the Cook Islands to Australia, I have tasted many different ginger beers, some that are absolutely delicious and some that are, quite literally, meh. What I mean about that is that some …
A year of discovery 