musings of a traveller and food lover

Photo Essay

Sweet…

I have been blogging since 2005 and used to have three blogs which I could not keep up anymore. So I consolidated it all in one. Food, photos and travels… I have met greet foodies and ...

Herb Lady _ Kas, Turkey

She spoke no English and I speak no Turkish word… but who needs words when you only need to smell the aromatic herbs and do sign language for how much. We were dining out in Kas, ...

Langkawi’s Wet Market

I took the bike along the beach here in Valencia last Saturday… it was sunny yet the wind is biting. I dismounted from my bike and paused to hear the surf crashing against the sand and ...

Wistful Reminiscences

An old student of my mother has left me a message… heard you were home but how come I did not see you? It was hard to explain why I did not tell everyone I was coming home. I grew up ...

teh tarik… langkawi, malaysia

… pulled tea in Mandarin. A tea that would take me a while to love. The tea is poured back and forth between two containers ( watched this process when I was in Singapore) to give a ...

Moments…

While we were in the main port of Ischia the crew went out for dinner with the kids…

Lasang Pinoy Sundays # 25… Saucy

When Ces of Spices started hosting this weekly Filipino food photography, she always have encouraged me to join. After all I have been active with the Lasang Pinoy “Filipino ...

panarea, aeolian islands

There is no day I do not think of all the travels I have done all over Italy, or rather all along the coast lines of Italy. One of the memorable trip we did was cruising the Aeolian Islands ...

pass the bone… S’il Vous Pla

I have been archiving my photos and found this one…. I was on my way to meet up a friend for cafe au lait when I passed this dog waiting outside the boucherie just next to Marche ...

beet back…

  a part of my new beginning… my new life… am busy putting the puzzles of my life back….