The best restaurant for lunch in Quito, Ecuador isn’t on TripAdvisor or Instagram. It isn’t in any travel guides, either. In fact, it’s tucked between a gas station and the Lions Club Medical Center.
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As we look forward to seeing fellow LHSA members in Boston, we wanted to pass along a few tips from our most recent trip to Boston when we attended another conference in June. We asked our fellow conference attendees for their tips as well.
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For years, I’ve heard Rick Steves talk about becoming a “temporary local.” And I thought we were pretty good at it. But almost three months of living temporarily in Jackson, Wyoming (the major town in Jackson Hole, Wyoming) has taught me first that our “temporary local” skills could be improved and second, how to do it.
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For me it was last September. At the time, I felt like I shouldn’t write about it, because I worried that my personal feelings might cloud my judgement. Now, 13 months later, after being fortunate enough to have several meals since then at restaurants ranked as highly or more highly, I’ve decided it’s time to write about our dinner at Cinc Sentits in Barcelona. (Cinc Sentits means ‘Five Senses’ in Catalan.)
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Five hundred year old Panama City, Panama was never on my travel radar until last January when a friend emailed that he was planning a gathering there to celebrate his birthday. Within less than an hour, we had checked flight availability and booked miles tickets on Copa via United. Fast forward to Thanksgiving Day, when we were among the few intrepid travelers at O’Hare awaiting a very early morning direct flight to Panama City.
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If your Panama trip is limited to Panama City, you may want to fit in a visit to a nearby beach. There are a few within a two hour drive, but we didn’t want to rent a car for a day or do a full day tour. Instead, while we were having breakfast one day during our stay, another person at the same event told us about Taboga Island. We decided to check it out later that day.
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In his book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain confessed that for his very first meal on his first trip to Tokyo, in his jet-lagged and exhausted state, he was so intimidated by the soba restaurants and overwhelming nature of Tokyo that he went to Starbucks. After considering his options, though, he bought a latte, rallied, and dove in to Tokyo.
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We ‘ve taken many food tours over the years, usually through Culinary Backstreets, which works with local guides to offer tours in cities all over the world. They don’t offer one in Seoul, so I decided to see if I could find one that might be comparable, since it’s fair to say that none of us were experts in Korean food beforehand.
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If you are traveling to Machu Picchu, you’ll almost certainly fly through Lima. Rather than rushing through, we stayed in Lima for 5 nights, and highly recommend as much time in Lima as you can spare. Below are some tips to help you get the most out of your time in Lima.
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It was like having dinner with an old friend.
For years I have watched Anthony Bourdain use his writing and travel documentary style to bring the sights and sounds of far off places right into my home. His irreverent, sarcastic, and detailed style of describing what travel is really like served as a mentor to my travel style. He helped teach a boy from rural Iowa what travel is all about.
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