The place I like the most when I’m visiting someone’s house is the kitchen. The kitchen is the heart of a home, where you can find out how people live and their lifestyle. Yes, I’m a curious person that loves to see what’s inside your fridge =P
When I found out about this book “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats” by Peter Menzel, I was amazed by the stunning pictures and had a really great time seeing what all those 30 families from different countries eat on a daily basis around the world. If you want to understand someone’s culture, start by the food. That’s what I do every time I get to go to a new country – go straight to their supermarket and food markets on the street.
Truly speaking, students in UK have a lighter academic year than brazilians students. I just got back from my Easter Break, which last 3 weeks. Although I wasn’t full-time on my lazy mode, I spent a few days in one of the most peculiar sceneries of Great Britain: Scotland.We had this plan of 3, 4 days of trip, from London to Inverness and then to Isle of Skye.We bought ticket from a company named Megabus, for budget people =PInverness is a convenient city if you want to go to Loch Ness. Other choice is Fort August, which is located in the south part of the Loch. The Loch is not so wide but is surely long. Is big enough to keep the most part of fresh water from Scotland. Its dark and freezing water date from Ice Age. We didn’t get to see Nessie, though.
From Inverness we headed to Isle of Skye, and there I mad a note to self to hire a car next time visiting Skye. The island is beautiful, but the public transportation sucks. They have like 3 bus in the morning and they only come back to operate in the end of the day and doesn’t operate at night at all.
The capital of Isle of Skye is Portree. I got a Hostel quite far from there, the Skywalker Backpackers Hostel, which is great: cozy, nice bedrooms, tidy kitchen and the couple who run it, it’s so friendly…they even got some medicine for my sore throat =)
As I was saying, Public transportation in Skye sucks, so, either you have a car or be prepared for hitchhiking. It is quite a common thing there, quite safe and we didn’t had any problem with it. Actually it’s kinda cool since you get to know more the local people.
Portree is the place to stay if you wont have a car. There you can rent bicycles, book horse rides and is easier to get the buses to spot your favorite places.
Unfortunally we couldn’t do any hikes because of the wet weather. But is a place to come back, for sure!
