Travel

One of the things I miss in China are potatoes – so I was thrilled to come across ‘Jie Jiao Xiao Cai’. …

For naan bread encrusted with spices, and spicy tofu – there’s the Muslim Bahali Xinjiang Restaurant. This combination (see featured image) costs …

For a cheap, quick lunch, three of these steamed dumplings do me nicely. So far I just point to the display ones …

I had to warm a little to this place – its signature dish, ‘Biangbiang Noodles’, means you are trying to eat (with …

West Timor – Mine of Women, and the Palm-Wine Bomb I never thought to see a mine run by women. By why …

The first of a series showing where I eat in Nanjing. May be useful to other ex pats or travelers here. I …

Roni is a Batak. This is a christian tribe that lives in the Lake Toba area of the otherwise Muslim Sumatra. The Bataks …

It is a macabre thought that in these days of GIS and databases, someone could probably come up with a map of …

At Ship Creek, just a few kilometers north of Haast, in South Westland, New Zealand, there is a wonderful boardwalk though an …

We set up ‘camp’ at the base of Mongolia’s ‘White Doors’ — a gap in a massive outcrop of vertically-tilted limestone. ‘Camp’ …