We stayed at Hotel Nungwi (the name isn’t complete, because its owners are Russian and I don’t want to advertise them). It’s a small hotel with, if I counted correctly, 12 rooms. We stayed in standard room 12, opposite the hotel restaurant. The hotel is run by a Russian family, Dasha and Maksym. Very welcoming,... » read more
Excursions in Tanzania (Zanzibar). In this article I’ll tell you about the pros and cons of Zanzibar excursions, as well as the prices and where to book them. Before our trip to Zanzibar I read a huge amount of information online about excursions in Tanzania and on Zanzibar itself. The prices were impressive, and after... » read more
The GRAND PARK KEMER hotel is in the lovely village of Beldibi, not far from Kemer — in fact, at the other end of the village from Club Hotel Belpinar, where we began our travels. The hotel is understated: moderately pretty, moderately quiet, moderately inconspicuous. Check-in at the GRAND PARK KEMER went quickly; the safe... » read more
And it really is tasty in Albania! First, to make calculating prices easy: the dollar-to-lek rate is 1 to 100. That is, for 1 dollar you get 100 lek. We started our gastronomic tour of Albania at Tradicional zgara. I’d read about this small, inconspicuous restaurant in reviews of the hotel before we flew to... » read more
In this article we’ll look at Spanish treats and the places where we liked the food. You can read about breakfasts at the hotel in our article about the hotel. In short, the breakfasts impressed me: the hotel was 3-star, and having already been to other European countries, I found the breakfasts here really quite... » read more
So, let’s get down to the treats from Thailand, or how we got our first taste of Asian cuisine. Since we stayed at the Pattaya Park hotel, which is at the bottom of the “Russian street” in Pattaya, most of our culinary explorations took place there. But first things first. We won’t dwell on breakfasts:... » read more