Tagged With "Kaufland supermarkets"
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Re: Tips to help with packing no matter where you are going
Adding to Mac's point. A big turning point for us was when we started packing for 7 days, no matter how much longer the trip. Usually we have a washer in the apartments we rent, but when not, there's always a laundromat nearby, and usually one that will wash and fold while we tour. We don't often enough change locations to want to keep everything packed (and anyway, I'm a compulsive unpacker) so some of the tools are less useful to us...but I do remind everyone that shoes are actually...
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Re: Limone, Lake Garda, Italy
"Only to be found in the Mediterranean..." Not really. Meyer lemons are native to China and have been grown in the US since 1908. I can find them just about anytime in my ordinary local supermarket in California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyer_lemon
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Re: Finishing college. Need help planning trip to U.K,
Sadly, that $4K isn't going to go a real long way in UK...it's a pretty expensive place. You'll need to find seriously cheap lodging and really mind your pence! If you're not really stuck on UK, you might look at other places where English will do, including Jamaica and Puerto Rico or even Guyana. If UK is really IT, though, you should look into hostel costs, and into sharing sites like couchsurfing.com. Depending on when you're going, you might find some luck with college spaces that are...
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Re: Gifts to bring back from Portugal or Barcellona
I may not be much help, because we tend to send postcards to the grandchildren from each city, with notes about what we've seen and think they would be interested in, and to avoid filling the suitcase with physical items. But for those few things we do buy, we usually go to the market! One of our travel rituals, on the first day when we stock the apartment, is to look for a local preserve or jam that we don't see at home (skyberries in Stockholm, for instance). Once we've found one we really...
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Re: Granville Island Market, Vancouver. 1) The Produce
WOW!! Some amazing colours and sights there DrF, So vivid it could be 3D. Shame it wasn't scratch and sniff ! I could spend all day just looking at all that fresh stuff. So much nicer than what you get in a big Supermarket. Fruit is so much nicer when you can eat it within 24 hours of plucking it off the tree.
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Re: Mercado de San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
It's amazing how much, for so many of us, our travel experience focuses on food and how people get it—and because public markets reveal so much more about local foodways than any supermarket can, it's wonderful to see these pictures. I can almost feel and smell! With all the markets we've featured lately on TravelGumbo, including the wonderful gallery on village markets in Asia as well as the public markets in Europe, the U.S. and now Argentina, perhaps the food aspect of "Gumbo" is coming...
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San Juan: Two Markets, Old and New
As Gumbo readers know by now, a lot of us who write these pieces are suckers for markets, large and small, wherever we go. If an army travels on its stomach, an army of bloggers stocks up at the public market. So, on our recent trip to Puerto...
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Are We bored of Abroad? - Why UK holidays are the Next Big Thing
Millions of holidaymakers are abandoning the beaches of far flung climes and sticking with a staycation in the UK - and in bigger numbers than ever before. Good news for the domestic economy, holidaying Brits are choosing to spend their hard-earned cash and home. The figures make for great reading… In the first quarter of 2016, 10% more people were holidaying in England than at the same time in 2015, a Rise of some 7.3 million holidaymakers. But why? What has changed to prompt people to stay...
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Portland, Oregon's Lively Farmers Market
Portland has seven Farmers Market locations, each with its own day of the week, and lots of good things to eat.
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Passau: Small City, Big Past
A small German city on the Austrian border, Passau has a past bigger than its size would make it seem. It's a pleasant visit along the Danube
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A Day in Santa Marta, Colombia
PHeymont spends a day making a nodding acquaintance with Colombia's oldest city, on the Caribbean coast.
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Time Travel: Subway Ads of the Past
Travelers are sitting ducks for advertising. Join PHeymont on a nostalgic look at some of the historic car cards at the NYC Transit Museum!
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Bandits at 12 o’clock!
Bob Cranwell spots this interesting and unusual car at his local grocery store.
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Only a Taste of Amsterdam
Amsterdam has too much good food of too many kinds to 'do' in a day, but PHeymont enjoyed his food tour nonetheless!
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Walking and Eating in Berlin's Mitte
On our last few trips, we've gotten in the habit of looking around for good eating/walking tours, which allow us to sample a variety of local foods along with some sights, and some well-prepared information about the foods, their history and their...
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Anatomy of a Trip, Oaxaca: Mercado Benito Juarez
A great number of things in Mexico are named for the country’s most beloved historical leader, Benito Juarez, born in a Zapotec village in the State of Oaxaca. It’s fitting, then, that the original market in the city is named...
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Aldi wants Aldis to shop in Italy
Five Italian couples named Aldi are acting as brand ambassadors for the company's expansion into Italy.
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Eurovision: What to leave at home
The Eurovision Song Contest finals are coming up next month, and fans got a surprising list of what not to bring.
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Capital of Culture Series: Reykjavik
This week Gumbo looks at Reykjavik in our Capital of Culture spotlight. In 2000, for symbolic reasons, 9 European cities were chosen to be designated a European Capital of Culture. One of those was the city of...
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Santiago's Central Markets: Daunting and Dazzling
Santiago's central markets are huge, chaotic, noisy, confusing (so the tourism agency warns) but they are full of wonderful stuff at good prices.
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Discover the Canary Island of La Gomera
Ian Cook shares a visit to the Canary Island of La Gomera. While one of the smaller Canary Islands, it is a natural paradise and a wonderful vacation destination.
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Every country by age 28, and still en route!
Henrik Jeppesen's been to every country in the UN—but even that's not enough for this footloose Dane.
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Aln Valley Railway, Northumberland.
Ian Cook shares some great classic train photos and the story of the Alnwick-Almouth line, recently reopened!
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El Tigre and the Parana Delta, Argentina (Where Gumbo was #158)
A great day trip from Buenos Aires is to El Tigre. Settled during a yellow fever epidemic, it was a destination of escape for the well heeled. It still has a nice laid-back feel and is a great place to go for a stroll.
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France food puzzle: Starbucks, Big Mac and vegetarians
Starbucks, a late starter, is seeing crowds in France. It's one of a number of contradictory food trends and events in the news.
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A Slice of Flatbush, Brooklyn (Where Gumbo Was #143)
A travelers wanders at home, trying to view his neighborhood as he views others, and wondering how others see his.
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Santa Caterina Market, Barcelona
Not as touristed or busy as the La Boqueria market, Santa Caterina is a great place to watch Spanish people go about their shopping and eating.
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Wurst case scenario: hot dog bites supermarket burglar
There's an old saying that it's a bad idea to go shopping when you're hungry. Now we find it's that way for burglary, too. An otherwise successful German burglar has been taken down by a bite of sausage. In February, burglars broke into a supermarket in Anspach by breaking down a door. They tried the office safe and couldn't get in, but they did take €300 worth of cigarettes with them. And one of the burglars, unable to resist a delicious temptation, took a hefty bite out of a pork...
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Deutschmark returns for brief encore
A German supermarket is dressing up in 60s decor and inviting Germans to get their old marks out from under the sofa cushions and spend them.
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Unknown stars of Paris
Paris has lots of rock-star tourist attractions, but some of its most interesting buildings deserve more notice than usually comes their way.
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France, Britain at swords points over croissants
Well, at least butter-knife points. French media are mocking a British supermarket that's making straight croissants instead of...well...crescents.
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Dubai: New grocery is 'all at sea'
A floating branch of Carrefour in Dubai's harbor accommodates sailboats and small craft, and makes deliveries to larger ones.
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Dutch banks: Go slow on cashless!
Debit cards have become the primary means of payment in the Netherlands, but the central bank is worried about possible problems.
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Re: Visiting Western Greenland. Part I – Three Towns
Dr Fumblefinger : Happy to answer questions. Kangerlussuaq is fairly basic by comparison to what we're used to though I love the town and feel at home there now! It's a converted US airbase basically! (Can't browse to my photos from Insert/Edit Image button above?) Accommodation : airport hotel (good standard), campsite (very basic), private accommodation hire options exist though I've not used them in this town - as I'm also part of a wild goose research team, I can stay at the science...
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Re: Is there a travel buff on your gift list?
I have two favorite, but odd gifts... One we give ourselves: U.S. tissues, such as Kleenex, are so expensive in pocket packs, and so thin that it takes two or three to safely blow your nose. So, every trip to Europe, we stop in a cheap supermarket and buy wonderful 3-ply tissues, mostly 10 or 12 packs to a package, for around €1-1.50 and bring them home. We've found similar tissues and prices wherever we go, and every winter cold or allergy season is now a memory of travel. The other I keep...
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Re: A Day of Decadence in Paris
On my first visit to France I visited a small supermarket. I bought a selection of economically priced wines. They all tasted the same - cheap. I was advised by other tourists to look for the laundry basket instore. It contained re-cycled bottles with no label. Just the description on a card attached to the basket. And even cheaper than the junk I'd already bought. It's what you see the locals choosing. 1 red and 1 white basket full of scratched bottles with a new cork . Beautiful wine and...
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Re: Coronavirus: Closures, collapses and resort fee increases
While I can only sympathise with those who have lost family to Covid-19, it remains starkly obvious that seasonal winter casualties are very much higher - you stand more chance of dying from the usual culprits. It seems for reasons yet unknown that children are not really affected, healthy adults mainly get bad influenza and elderly people, usually with co-morbidities are hit hardest. It seems the most serious threat is to economies which are heavily dependent on just-in-time supply chains,...
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Re: Deutschmark returns for brief encore
I can only presume that Germany - like the UK - has a lot of dirty money that would set off too many alarm bells - hidden under too many beds !
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Norway shutting down its post offices
With fewer counter customers, less mail moving and its bank service moving out, Norway's postal system is closing all but a handful of offices.
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Re: Finnair's food soon in supermarkets
Finnair's gamble on the supermarket appears to be paying off; the first lot of prepared meals, sold only in a supermarket near the Helsinki airport, sold out in hours, and the program will be expanded to more stores.
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Buc-ee's Travel Center, St Augustine, Florida
Buc-ee's shows you the meaning of Texas -sized!
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The Cook Islands
Comprising 15 white-sand islands scattered across a vast expanse of clear-blue Pacific Ocean, the Cook Islands is located between New Zealand and Hawaii and until recently was largely unknown in much of the world.
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Rue Bab Doukkala, Marrakech
On one of a number of visits to Marrakech PortMoresby finds a traditional market street on the edge of the medina.
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Re: The 'Backstreets' of Venice
What an amazing coincidence - that's very close to the apartment where we stayed for a month, just off Fondamenta San Felice. Used to shop at the Billa supermarket on Strada Nova (I think it's a Co-op now). Thanks for bringing back many happy memories.
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Learning from the Past in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Stephanie visits a city famed for America's most disastrous flood and finds there is much more to its history
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Plastic water bottles under attack
Environmental concerns over plastic packaging and other issues are leading to campaigns against bottled water.
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Lancaster Central Market: Changed, and Not
One of America's best small city markets has changed over time, while keeping its traditional character. PHeymont visited recently.