Some of our favorite travel blogs have our mouths watering.
Swiss food? I think cheese. Do you think cheese? While Käsefondue (cheese fondue) is number one in this GoMad Nomad post of the Top Ten Swiss Foods, the culinary creations of Switzerland are not always laden in dairy products. Take the healthy breakfast cereal called Birchermüsli, for example. (So that’s where muesli comes from!)
Belize-bound? Our pals at Travellious take us on a stomach-rumbling photo culinary tour of this Caribbean country whose food is as diverse as its cultural influences– England, China West Africa, and of course the indigenous Mayans. If your Belize cuisine consists of little more than rice and beans with hot sauce, you’re not checking out these hot spots. Shrimp ceviche, anyone?
Also in the don’t click this if you’re hungry category, Away.com featured this piece on the unbelievable food that awaits your hungry self in Italy’s Lazio region, which includes Rome. And before you leave the post midway through to go find yourself a slice of wood-fired wild porcini pizza, do try to push on. Culinary immersion is the thing for travelers to Italy these days, and the author puts you in touch with cooking schools and foodie tours around Rome that’ll teach you enough to make that classic carbonara in your own little kitchen once you return home.
And finally, as if the cost of airfare has not soared high enough, now you’ll have to PYOP (pack your own pretzels), too. At least on Continental Airlines, that is. But as we’ve seen so many times before, when one major airline launches a “cost-saving” tactic, others soon follow suit. Harriet Baskas reports on MSNBC’s travel tips that Continental is actually following its partner United Airlines in its pretzel stinginess, and it’ll save an estimated $2.5 million a year. US Airways and American Airlines are snackless, too. Think these airlines will pass that savings onto customers by trimming baggage fees? Doubtful. Rising fuel costs will take care of that. Oh, and just so you know, you can still eat all the pretzels you want on Jet Blue and Southwest!
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I think it’s high time someone invent a plane that is powered on natural gas or some other cheap fuel. That way it will force the competition to bring those prices down on many of the frills they are charging for today.