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USA | Thu, 21 Dec 2017 | By bombardo-family | Views [851] | Comments [1]
Arriving in Sweden our planned stop was in Jonkoping, Sweden. Chris’s family hosted our host about 20 years ago as a foreign exchange student, Maria. I had also met Maria once at Chris’s sister’s wedding. Maria was ... Read more >
Tags: jonkoping, sweden, world nomads
USA | Thu, 21 Dec 2017 | By bombardo-family | Views [927]
Our ride to Copenhagen was another first for us. It started out with a broken train engine, it would only go in one direction and it happened to be the wrong direction. It took nearly 2-hours, but we did a giant turn around somehow. ... Read more >
Tags: copenhagen, denmark, hamlett tours, legoland, world nomads
USA | Sat, 16 Dec 2017 | By bombardo-family | Views [888]
I have always wanted to visit Germany, especially Munich and Berlin. Berlin was everything I expected and I would love to go back again. I have always remembered watching the TV coverages of the Berlin Wall coming down. There is so much history in the ... Read more >
Tags: berlin, germany, magdeburg, world nomads
USA | Sat, 16 Dec 2017 | By bombardo-family | Views [974]
As part of our visit to Poland we took an overnight trip to Krakow to visit Auschwitz. We debated if we should go, Elizabeth and I wanted to, but we weren’t sure about taking the girls. We went back and forth if the girls were too young.... Read more >
Tags: awschwitz, krakow, poland, world nomads
USA | Sat, 16 Dec 2017 | By bombardo-family | Views [631]
The ride into Warsaw was our first overnight train. The girls were really excited, as were we. Most of the train rides have been 3-6 hours during the day. The lead up to Warsaw was almost entirely about the train ride and nothing about ... Read more >
Tags: poland, warsaw, world nomads
USA | Thu, 16 Nov 2017 | By bombardo-family | Views [681]
Since we arrived in Europe we have been traveling on trains with our Europass. The ride to Prague required us to change from the train to a bus, it was still covered with the Europass. We rode a double decker bus from Germany to Prague. We were ... Read more >
Tags: prague, world nomads
USA | Thu, 16 Nov 2017 | By bombardo-family | Views [584]
We were worn out when we arrived in Brussels. We really did a lot of walking in London. When we got off the train and I announced to the girls we only have a 1.4 km walk with our backpacks I thought we had a munity on our hands. When ... Read more >
Tags: beer, brussels, chocolate, manneken pis, waffles, world nomads
USA | Thu, 16 Nov 2017 | By bombardo-family | Views [619]
In our original plan London did not make the list, it was just out of the way. However, Elizabeth really wanted to visit Stonehenge, so London was added back to the list. Our new friends we met in Madrid recommended us to visit the Sky Garden, ... Read more >
Tags: london, london tower, world nomads
VENEZUELA | Sun, 17 Apr 2016 | By mahadevrojastorres | Views [4570]
Since I received the first email from World Nomads saying that my scholarship entry was on final rounds of judging, my happiness only has increased to an unknown level for me, and even though I was exchanging emails and phone calls with Alicia, ... Read more >
Tags: 2015, 2016, ahf, intrepid, kathmandu, nepal, photography, scholarship, travel, world nomads
SRI LANKA | Tue, 20 Oct 2015 | By lindsaylauren | Views [850]
The final few days of our trip were spent in Colombo, Sri Lanka’s capital.
In moving around the city, Asanga mentioned several times how much faster and more convenient it was to travel. During the decades-long civil war, Colombo was riddled ... Read more >
Tags: colombo, culinary travel, food, hill country, ministry of crab, old dutch hospital, sri lanka, world nomads, world travel
SRI LANKA | Thu, 8 Oct 2015 | By lindsaylauren | Views [949]
After our somewhat cloak-and-dagger glimpse into the tea world, it was time to leave Hill Country and head south, to where it’s truly hot. All that time in the mountains I’d thought it was scorching, but I was actually just lukewarm in comparison ... Read more >
Tags: culinary travel, food, gem mine, gems, hill country, mining, ratnapura, sri lanka, world nomads, world travel
SRI LANKA | Wed, 30 Sep 2015 | By lindsaylauren | Views [885]
When I sat down to write this, I had a cup of tea next to me. When I sat down to finish it, I had another cup of tea. A third cup will keep me company as I edit the photos. Tea is my ritual, my companion, my main source of caffeine. For some reason, ... Read more >
Tags: culinary travel, food, hill country, sri lanka, tea, tea factory, world nomads, world travel
SRI LANKA | Fri, 18 Sep 2015 | By lindsaylauren | Views [1035]
“They’re called Italy.” “Excuse me?” “They’re called Italy.” “I’m sorry….what?” “ Idli . I-D-L-I.” “Oooooooh…..”
Such was the conversation ... Read more >
Tags: culinary travel, food, hill country, south indian food, sri lanka, tamil, tea, vegetarian, world nomads, world travel
SRI LANKA | Fri, 11 Sep 2015 | By lindsaylauren | Views [625]
Our epic, 7-hour train journey from Kandy to Bandarawela took us high into the mountains. I was now in tea. RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
As we pulled in, green mountains dominated the view, and a sign on the outskirts of town welcomed us to “... Read more >
Tags: #feastsl, culinary travel, food, hill country, liptons seat, sri lanka, tea, tea picking, world nomads, world travel
SRI LANKA | Tue, 1 Sep 2015 | By lindsaylauren | Views [1103]
When a particular country is mentioned, my mind usually thinks of its landscapes. Someone says Bolivia, and I think of salt flats. For Iceland, it’s those mighty waterfalls. Italy is a neatly-laid vineyard. The words ‘Sri Lanka’ have ... Read more >
Tags: culinary travel, food, hill country, hill country, sri lanka, tea, tea country, train, world nomads, world travel
SRI LANKA | Tue, 25 Aug 2015 | By lindsaylauren | Views [965]
Our last few days in Kandy were a flurry of pineapples and processions.
One evening, a local family – Kolitha, Deepthi, Chamodi, and Dilumi – hosted me for a cooking lesson and dinner.
Their home sat next to a flooded rice paddie, ... Read more >
Tags: buddhism, culinary travel, food, hill country, monks, sri lanka, temple, temple of the tooth, world nomads, world travel
SRI LANKA | Fri, 14 Aug 2015 | By lindsaylauren | Views [1087]
One morning in Kandy, we woke up very early – so early, the city’s many stray dogs were still sleeping, and the roads were not yet crowded with tuk tuks. We climbed into the van, and held on carefully to the containers of well-wrapped dishes ... Read more >
Tags: buddhism, culinary travel, food, hill country, holy, monks, sri lanka, temple, world nomads, world travel
SRI LANKA | Fri, 31 Jul 2015 | By lindsaylauren | Views [1225]
Learning to cook from people is one of the greatest privileges I know. Watching experienced hands take ingredients and transform them into dishes is something I’ll never tire of, and more often than not, my cooking teachers and I haven’t ... Read more >
Tags: coconut, cooking lesson, dessert, hill country, passport and plate, sri lanka, sweets, traditional food, world nomads
SRI LANKA | Wed, 29 Jul 2015 | By lindsaylauren | Views [1042]
In today’s world, we’re all very accustomed to eating foods that don’t grow where we live. Though I eat as locally as possible, I regularly use olive oil, throw cashews into my salads, and love coconut milk. I also eat chocolate…... Read more >
Tags: cooking, hill country, passport and plate, spice gardens, spices, sri lanka, tour, world nomads
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