This "new" World, where we live nowadays, has brought big changes in the way we happily and freely move. The past six months had shown us how much more important our home can be than we thought. If, for some time, it was not even possible to walk around our neighbourhood, leaving on a trip was only possible in our mind ...
Traveling is something that we, as a family, really enjoy doing and that we do whenever is possible and our favorite holidays are the ones that include a long road trip. This kind of vacations allows us to be, to talk, to sing and to laugh all together while watching the landscape changing...
Early, we realised that our trips would remain on standby during this pandemic and they would remain like that for a long time. For this reason, we felt the need to find a way to go somewhere without leaving home ...
In search of alternatives to move around the World, we started two regular projects that could bring other countries and cultures to us - "Cooking around the world" and "All the trips we will doo soon or later".
For the cooking activity, we started researching different recipes from distant or nearby countries and making mealtime something special and different during weekends. It's been great to use and combine new ingredients, taste different flavours and record all the steps of this process. In addition, it is an opportunity to get to know better other countries and their traditional food. We have also discovered how distant countries have influenced each other's food.
The project about our future trips is giving us the opportunity to discover countries and to plan our next trips without the rush that usually stresses us before departure. We have already sketched three. One, it is a long version of a previous one we had done when we arrived in the UAE, the others are more ambitious and they can only be achieved when we will travel to our home country. In the meantime, we had a fruitful brainstorming and it looks like we will have new trips to plan ahead for a long period ...
Of course, it is not at all the same, travel is much better but we are enjoying this way to travel. Both projects are enriching our days bringing anticipatory happy moments and also some hope ...
E.C.
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