Brace yourself, I am about to write a glowing review of vegan food in France... Bordeaux wound up being my absolutely favorite place in France so far. I actually love it, and look forward to visiting. Bordeaux is not some sort of excessive vegan haven, but what they do have counts. 20 years ago France was aggressively disgusted with vegan food in my extensive experience traveling there. I was in a small town by the name of Gordes, and cried more than I explored while submitting to a[...]
France and I, we go way back. It's been mostly a terrible experience as far as vegan food is concerned. My heart was wide open for the Carcassonne vegan, as with much of the vegans living in France. Twenty years ago I was literally crying in a phone booth in Gordes when some guy who happened to recently open a pizza shop saw me and actually spoke English to me and made me some pizza because I thought I was going to lose my mind if one more person tried to feed me ham. But, I digress... Franc[...]
If you have been around a while, you may have caught our post and/or video on 22 Magical Vegan Spots in Italy a few years back. I am so happy we got to go back to Italy this summer and eat our way through new and exciting places and share an updated vegan Italy guide for you! Of course we did other stuff, but here is where I get to share all the food, because that's why we are here, isn't it? Though last time we posted was pre-pandemic and this time is mid-pandemic, we tried to do our best t[...]
This was quite a project and I am so happy we decided to do it. Take away has taken on a whole new necessity in our lives. We were so excited about discovering new places on Holland, and then the world stopped. Being on the extra safe side with Atlas, we don’t go out to public spaced and cringe when deliveries arrive. We are full blown hazmat level responsive, so we cooked every meal, every day for months. After a while we started to get comfortable with limited take away options from establi[...]
In late February we went to Porto as a last minute decision to clear out our storage unit and gather the big bag of academic tools I have brought with us from the states. Atlas has been blowing through first grade math and I had gathered second grade workbooks, books for him to read and “next step” tools, just in case. Even though we had been provided the incredible opportunity to join a special school cooperative in Holland, we have a ton of homeschool work we do together, as a family. We[...]
We kind of accidentally wound up for Kent for a while. Our Portugal plan was a bust, and visa time was running low, so we had to leave the EU to buy some time and make a new plan. We loved Fulham, but were having a hard time finding a place we liked enough to call home in our budget, so we started to explore Kent for it’s nature. We had landed in Dover a few times from our ferry ride from France and the drive to London was always very pretty. We even intended on moving to Kent before Holland[...]
Italy went from being a super non-vegan friendly situation, to being an incredible place for vegans once we figures some stuff out. We started in Florence, which had limitations, but when we found the good stuff, it was so good, it may bring tears to your eyes! As we wandered through the nooks, we found some truly special talent and we can’t wait to share everything below! We have a goal to grow this list of 22 vegan spots in Italy to 200. Welcome to the first dedicated vegan post/ If you wan[...]