While staying in Tbilisi for three months, I discovered Barbarestan, which quickly became my favorite restaurant in the city…and about which I told everyone I met. I went there with my friend Claire, a smart, hip Harvard grad who was studying Russian in Georgia for the summer. I went there with a couple on holiday from … Continue reading
Some first impressions of the Republic of Georgia: I Getting out of the airport was pretty simple. I got off the plane, stood in line for about 10 minutes, showed my passport and got it stamped, grabbed my baggage, which arrived very quickly, grabbed a trolley for all my heavy stuff, rolled through the “nothing … Continue reading
As promised, I made a trip back to the neighborhood butcher my landlady suggested. In fact, I did so the morning after I posted the original smoerrebroed post. Apparently, even Danes are crazy about their smoerrebroed, because when she saw my blog post, she got hungry for some and asked me to pick a few … Continue reading
Before I decided to travel to Denmark, I had never even heard of smoerrebroed. (It’s actually spelled with an “o” that has a line through it, not with an oe, but my keyboard doesn’t have danish characters…) But, as soon as I started reading travel guides and doing online research about Denmark and Copenhagen, I … Continue reading
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