Mallorcan cuisine makes use of lots of local ingredients based mostly on pork, fish and vegetables doused with plenty of garlic and olive oil. Those who want to experience genuine Mallorcan cuisine would do well to look for some of their specialties. Mallorcan specialties include:
● sausages - sobrasada (raw minced pork with hot red pepper), botifarro (cured pork with blood), and spicy chorizo (although this is originally from mainland from Spain)
● jamon serrano – a special whole cured ham displayed nicely on a slicing board
● frit mallorqui – pig’s innards fried with potatoes, onions, and tomatoes (It tastes good but not for the quesy)
● tumbet – Mallorcan style ratatouille of aubergines, potatoes and peppers cooked in olive oil
● sopes mallorquines - thick broth of thinly-sliced brown bread and vegetables
● llom amb col - pork wrapped in cabbage with pine nuts and raisins
● lechona asada - roast suckling pig
● helado – ice cream
● flan - creme caramel
● gato de almendras – almond cake with toasted almond ice cream
● ensaimada – fluffly spiral pastry filled with different fillings dusted with sugar on top
● cheeses – Mahon (from Menorca), Manchego (from mainland Spain)

créditos: http://www.mallorcaspain.org/

 ¿No es una vergüenza? ¿No es una pena? Hemos olvidado los mejores lugares de nuestras vidas. Ya no recordamos el lujo de nuestros mejores caminos, aquellos que nos transportaban por igual al pasado y al futuro. ¿Cómo podemos ser indiferentes a la gloria de los paseos por las Pirámides de Egipto? ¿Cómo no podemos no apreciar la belleza modernista de una ciudad como Brasilia?

Viajar debe tener siempre un sentido. Algo que oriente nuestro camino. Seguir la belleza es uno de los mejores senderos que uno puede tomar. Para ello quisiera aclarar que a belleza de una ciudad no solo depende de la majestuosidad de sus monumentos. También cuenta el espiritú y personalidad de la ciudad. Ahora esta personalidad no es algo que se pueda planificar, es que algo que ocurre naturalmente gracias a la gente que habita las ciudades.

Así tenemos que no es lo mismo visitar Río de Janeiro con las costumbres tan alegres del pueblo carioca que parece nunca reposar. En Brasil la alegría es una norma y la ponen en práctica millares de personas que sienten que su ciudad es la “mais grande do mundo”.

créditos: http://luxurycitytrips.com/

 CURRENTLY billeted at Jolly Hotel Leonardo da Vinci right across the Vatican and the setting of Mission Impossible: III, I’m planning not to eat here but to savor all the Italian dishes that I can find across Rome. I only eat breakfast here at the hotel which is not really exciting for me because it is just like a typical American breakfast – buns, coffee and all that. There’s no excitement in that.

And so I walked across streets intending to savor all the street food that I could find the whole day. This must be a great vacation alone because I really had a jolly good time strolling the city thoroughfares. I wanted to taste something different, something foreign from my hometown in Jersey City. I wanted to taste real authentic Italian food.

The most common thought that would snap to one’s mind is pizza. Anywhere in the world – whether you’re in Asia, pizza is really associated as being Italian. Of course, I didn’t want to eat pizza in some Pizza Hut, I wanted it to be really Italian. So I headed to Pizzera Il Maratoneta in Via dei Volsci corner Via del Sardi at the San Lorenzo area. Lots of students and families dine here and for the first time that day, I saw a real Italian family up close as well as three college girls who shyly took a look at me and wondered why I was alone. Although we all sport Caucasian features, locals here tend to distinguish tourists from themselves.

credits: http://4italytravel.com/

 Historically the very core of France is Paris, starting from a little island on the middle of Seine River inhabited by fishermen more than 2000 years ago. Julius Caesar named the Island Lutetia and the people living there Parisii. As time passed by the small community of fishermen grew and spilled over to the other side of the riverbanks and with the name eventually evolving to Paris. From the city of Paris, France grew in circles around it with the immediate region surrounding the city called Ile-de-France. Although France has grown really large as more and more provinces were added, Ile-de-France remains remains the heart of the country with much of its history residing there.

Tourists who have but a few days to tour France would do well to simply choose to tour Ile-de-France. Aside from seeing the sights of Paris side trips to the rest of Ile-de-France will bbe more than enough to keep you busy and fascinated.

credits: http://traveltofrance.org/

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