Paperwork in Spain

DocumentationTravelling to Spain is easy. The documents you need vary depending on where you are from.

If you are a citizen of the European Union, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein: all you need is your Identification Card, or a valid passport. Minors travelling with their ID card must have a document that shows parental authorisation. ... [Read more]

Making Ajoblanco

Ingredients
Ingredients for 4 people: 100g of raw almonds 100g of breadcrumbs 2 cloves of garlic 100cl of olive oil 1l of water 1 spoonful of sherry vinegar salt

Preparation
Peel the almonds by putting them in boiling water. Put them in a deep receptacle with the salt and the garlic and crush. Add cold water to prevent the almonds becoming oily. Add the breadcrumbs... [Read more]

Tastes of Barcelona

Barcelona’s cuisine, cosmopolitan and filled with Mediterranean flavours, is a showcase for the greatest of Catalonian recipes. [Read more]

Chris Martin

Chris Martin lives and works in San Francisco, California.

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Keys to Florence

Wandering the Amalfi Coast

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Chandra Nageswaran

Chandra Nageswaran is a freelance writer, writing mostly on travel, culture, fashion etc. for various websites and publications. You can view her blogs at www.eieihome.com.

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Logan Brown and Wellington

Logan Brown Restaurant www.loganbrown.co.nz is one our favourite restaurants to visit on our tours, and having being there countless times, I can personally recommend it for it’s wonderful food, wine and atmosphere. Wellington is also the coffee capital of New Zealand with several small personalised coffee roasters, who freshly roast coffee beans daily and supply to local cafes... [Read more]

Lake Taupo under $60

AC BATHS Thermally heated public pool swimming pools. Indoor outdoor leisure pool, 2 hydroslides, private spas, 2 25 metre pools, great family fun. [Read more]

Soaking in Rotorua

Rotorua, in the Central North Island, is my favorite hot spot in New Zealand. I am not alone. Visitors are attracted by the hordes to Rotorua for its towering geysers, bubbling mud and kaleidoscopic silica terraces. Even as you step into town there... [Read more]

Chatting with the Maiko

Well, I will not be buying the CD anytime soon, but I sat attentively watching their purposeful powdered-faces. They moved methodically to the twanging of the Japanese three-stringed instrument. It was a bit hypnotic. With the movie coming out based on the popular book “Memoirs... [Read more]

Jesse Siglow

Jesse has always loved to travel. Born in New Mexico and raised in Connecticut, he was immersed in cultural diversity at a young age, leaving an impression and desire to learn more about the world. Having traveled extensively throughout Western Europe, the UK, North and South America and recently... [Read more]

Devin Galaudet

After stints in antiques, construction, film and as a professional card player, Devin Galaudet has now found his niche combining his passion for travel and writing. Devin’s freelance writing is currently featured in a popular trade publication and honors this path as a labor of love. When he is not writing Devin enjoys his wife, pixie-like eight-year-old daughter and reading confusing esoteric books.

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Joe Hammond

Joe Hammond has had a hectic travel schedule by anyone’s standard by logging some 17 flightsin 2005. Being a history major at the University of California- Irvine, he comes to history through an indirect route. He was a carnie in Japan, worked for a minor league baseball team, and ran a summer camp on a British Garrison in Germany. On comparing travel in Europe with Japan he notes. “In Europe you have all these... [Read more]

Thembeka

Thembeka, born and raised in the States, found a love for traveling when she spent six months studying abroad at Oxford University. Her time in England not only included hours upon hours of delightful studying but also journeys around the motherland and to a number of other European countries. Soon after her return to America, she began planning a three-month journey into the heart of South Africa where she lived in a small,... [Read more]

Jen Cook

Jen Cook, USA — email

Lost in Translation

At first consideration, a trip to Japan can appear to be anything but simple. Certain visions persist of a crowded country featuring a complex maze of subways, trains and rickshaws moving at light speed whirling under the umbrella of that impossible language. It is all true. However, don’t let potential overwhelm get in the way of a great vacation. [Read... [Read more]

Memories of Kabuki

For the past 25 years the JACCC has presented Japanese Culture through performances and other events to enthusiastic crowds in Losd Angeles, like Kabuki Theater. [Read more]

Cruising with Kruse

I had the pleasure to ride along with Kruse on a recent trip across the South Island in New Zealand. As I drove, Kruse had a lot to say about New Zealand history, Maori culture, local information and attractions. [Read more]