Cumin is a key spice in one of my favorite dishes— red lentil köfte. But it’s a bit trickier to translate, unlike sol and pieprz, the Polish words for salt and pepper. When cooking red lentils recently, I’d bought what Google Translate said cumin was in Polish: kumin. Hooray for easy to remember Polish words!... Continue Reading →
So, confession time: while my move to Poland went pretty smooth, my new job is not quite working out the way I envisioned. My boss has been fumbling with my schedule, with work-permit related paperwork, and even with addresses of the businesses I’m supposed to teach English at. What’s a writer to do? Well, go... Continue Reading →
Nothing like a balloon flight to take one's mind off of traveling jitters. I leave the country this Sunday, and have been cramming in last-minute get togethers with friends. And last week, that took me to Pagosa Springs in Colorado. The weather was sunny and calm, perfect for flying. There's something so zen, yet so... Continue Reading →
I was happily surprised by Winnipeg: the landscape was prettier, the city more interesting, the vegetarian restaurants tastier than I had thought. If I have the chance, I would love to explore the city more: try out the bicycle trails through the university area, wander through the parks, see if I can go on a... Continue Reading →
Chicago feels familiar enough to navigate easily, yet unfamiliar, so it’s still exciting— I spent part of a summer there in high school. Myself and some other students from my school stayed in a hostel and took college classes. Searching for the perfect goth lace dress on Belmont, exploring new restaurants in Chinatown, soaking in... Continue Reading →
While planning this trip, I kept seeing articles with names like “36 hours in Warsaw,” which reminded me of other travel articles about 24 or 72 hours in a city, and I wondered whose trips and lives fall so neatly into those types of hours. Here’s my trip, and doesn’t fall into a neat time... Continue Reading →
Don’t let it’s location in the heart of bread and meat country fool you— Hungary may be the land of goulash, but at its heart, goulash is a mixture— and so is the food in Budapest. With a handful of great vegan (and one gluten-free) restaurants, not to mention plenty of takeout Thai, Vietnamese and... Continue Reading →
I'm typing this right before I get on a train to leave Hradec Králové— my home in the Czech Republic since February— and I'm sending myself off with a gluten-free cream puff from Bazalka. Very short post— and it's almost impossible to capture that transitional moment of leaving anyhow. So, it's off to the next adventure...
Lovely day for a bike ride— warm, sunny, but not too hot— through woodsy paths and little winding roads in the Czech Republic. Our destination: the castle Kunětická horawhich was near-ish to Hradec Králové. We did make a pitstop at the recently opened lookout tower Rozhledna Milíř, which had a great view of the... Continue Reading →
Vienna was like a breath of fresh air: the vacation I needed after feeling culture shocked, a taste of Mozart, Klimt and the Danube. And like any good holiday, it was simple and wonderful, along with me realizing a thing or two about myself. It’s a beautiful city, more formal than Prague or Wrocław. Vienna... Continue Reading →
Detroiter in Poland 