Christmas food!

For the first in two years, I nipped home for Christmas - it was a quick one but just in time to have some Italian food for the holidays... and a browse around the market in Bologna!

But also come back on time for my first English Christmas dinner - featuring turkey, gravy, Yorshire puddings, roast potatoes, vegetables and gravy. Missing from the plate are Brussels sprouts (can you blame us?) and pigs in blankets, sausages wrapped in bacon.

Lake me up

Long time, no write... Things have changed a wee bit and I am back in the old continent!

After long travels, I have settled in Liverpool - just for the time being!

Need to recharge my batteries, buy a DVD player, have a couch and get a normal job... beofre I get bored of it all and leave again!

The travel bug has not left me yet so I am slowly exploring the British Isle while I am here, I was lucky enought to be swept away for a week end to the Lake District - the temperatures were cold but plenty of ales and pub grub kept us going. We stayed in Windermere, not a metropolis... but plenty restaurants, pubs and walks to keep us warm!

Snap!

One of the must-do's in KL, it's the Petronas Towers... Go see them daytime, go see them lit up... Plenty of people trying to get the best pictures...
also people getting in some very weird position to take them!

Gili Islands

After riding a bycicle on a Balinese highway for about 3hours today (yes, I was sweaty and really scared... and definitely got some weird looks by the locals driving their vans right next to me), this is where I am going tomorrow.
I wasn't planning to... I hadn't even heard of the Gili Islands the day before yesterday...
But it looks amazing! Bring 'em on!

You know you're in Asia...

...when you get to immigration and they stick something shiny in your passport, thank you visa people,was looking forward to getting an extra one.
.... when you go to the toilet and you refuse to queue for the squat one, making doing a wee a longer process.
... when there's a massive sticker in the bathroom mirror reminding you to wash your hands after you use the toilet (like I needed to know that!).

Now let's get on to the real stuff: amazing food and cheap massages! Falling in love with Bali already (pity it's humid and raining!!)

Hit the road!

That time has come again, to throw the high heels out and wear the Birkenstock sandals again... to go to lovely South East Asia again!
With only 5days left in Oz (don't even get me started), Bali and Malaysia are waiting for me so I shouldn't really complain... even if leaving Australia after a year it's hard!
The plan is a week in Bali and three weeks travelling around Malaysia... but this time round I don't even have a guidebook, so we'll definitely see what happens just when we get there!
Exciting and scary at the same time... but, as someone said to me before, "but you know you'll be fine" :)

I am gonna miss you!

If you know me well enough, you know I absolutely love food. I love cooking, trying new things and sitting at the table eating and talking about food. It might be cause I am Italian or it might be cause I was a starving child in my previous life, not sure yet!

A lot of travelling has also been about food, I completely fell in love with Asian food (yes, I do miss you, my lovely pizza but... noodles, c'mon!) and I can't wait to go back to have some more rice/fried crickets/curries/whatever...

But one thing I am gonna miss about Australia is VEGEMITE: this spread that looks like Nutella but it's thick and savoury, it goes perfectly on toast with cheese, or avocado... or anything, really! I have heard that they also sell it in the UK... so guess where I'll be heading soon :) just for a bit of spread!