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One of my ALL TIME favorite Turkish eats is gözleme. It is a traditional Turkish flatbread and pastry dish, made of hand-rolled leaves of yufka dough that are lightly brushed with butter and eggs, filled with various toppings, sealed, and cooked over a griddle. While we were in...

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If there is one thing that is always a highlight when in Morocco, it is indeed the souks, or the markets. Everything from food to clothing to carpets, blankets and more can be found in the souks…and treasures are always a wonderful thing to bring home from far away places!...

I was excited to have Bob & Bev on our Turkey Travel Experience; both had been to Turkey and Bob actually spent several years in Turkey growing up as an expat teenager. We were both there in Istanbul a couple days before and they had asked me if I’d like to join them...

I’m not sure why exactly but I have ALWAYS had the Pantheon on my list of places to visit. When I was in Rome for the first time for only 6 hours,  I was looking forward to see the Pantheon the most…it was like a first date sort of feeling in my stomach…I was...

Murano is an island in the Venetian Lagoon in Italy where the world famous Venetian glass is made. It was first made on the island of Venice, but for safety reasons, they decided to move it to Murano. You take a vaperatto and travel for about 10 minutes to the island. Murano has...

Oriveto, Italy I don’t know about you, but I love to post my travels online in as close to real-time as possible. I do it for several reasons – to let my readers experience the place as it happens, to allow my friends and family to know where I am at, to connect with...

I have known Cesar for MANY years…we have attended the same church for many years. He and his sweet wife, Girlie, have talked about joining me on one of our Turkey Travel Experiences before but it didn’t work out. This June they came along and was it a super fun time...

I had heard of Panutsa, or peanut brittle, being made in the quaint little town of Taal, south of Manila in Batangas. We hopped onto a tricyle and and I asked the driver in my not-perfect-but-fairly-understandable Filipino, “Nasaan yung gawin sila ang panutsa?” or...

Now let’s just make this clear: I am NO chef. Not even in the SLIGHTEST. But because my husband is, I DO know a thing or two about spices 🙂 And Moroccan ones were awesome! We went to a place called 100,000 spices and were able to select spices and know what dishes to use...