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$5 Feasts – Healthy Tarator and Shopska Salad with love from Bulgaria

This month for my guest blogger $5 feasts, I have not just one but TWO amazing recipes for you. My mouth is literally watering as I get this post ready, so as soon as I am done I am heading to the local market and grabbing the ingredients to whip these …

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$5 Feasts – Smoky Black Bean Lettuce Wraps with Goats Curd

This month I am launching my new segment of guest posts from fellow food and travel bloggers who also try and find a way to create healthy $5 Feasts. A great way to get even more inspiration and ideas for cooking up a storm using different ingredients in different locations and …

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Easy Rice Paper Rolls for your Backpacker Picnic

Packing something delicious, healthy and portable when you are travelling can be a bit of a challenge. When I know I have a full day of sight-seeing ahead or a hike I generally try to make a sandwich to take with me. However, I am not a big sandwich fan …

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French Provincial Vegetables and Mussels Recipe

Looking for an easy, yet delicious Sunday night meal while you are travelling. Then check out my French Provincial Vegetables and Mussels Recipe. Although it is French-inspired, you can pick up these ingredients all over the world and many different markets.  Markets! I can’t rave enough about markets, about the …

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An Easy Breakfast Steak Sandwich on Portugese Bread

A big part of travel is about eating like the locals, trying out new dishes and flavours at different times of the day. A Portuguese breakfast steak sandwich has fast become one of my favourite foods. Every culture has a different breakfast food… every region in fact. Choosing what to …

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Healthy Mexican Steak with Veg Salsa – on a camping stove

Cooking in hostels is always a challenge. Cooking something healthy and delicious is even more of a challenge… one might even call it an experiment. You have to deal with limited utensils, stoves that either burn too hot or not at all, lack of spices and oil and other people …

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Lime and Chilli Chicken Salad

I am chilling out on the Mexican island of Cozumel in order to complete my open water PADI diving course… as you do. Cozumel is a relaxed place with the whole island revolving around the scuba diving trade – which is obviously why I am here. Most people visit the island …

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From Pintxos to a Basque Style Chorizo Stew – San Sebastian has it all

As I wander through the old town in San Sebastian, all of my senses are pleasantly confronted by food. First, it is the sight of the cobbled streets – so different from anything we have back home in modern Sydney. Then its the sound of glass chinking, old friends greeting …

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Singapore Stir-Fry: a Cheap Hostel Meal

Cooking in hostels isn’t always easy but it is always worth it! In Singapore, we stayed at the Green Kiwi Backpackers in Bugis.  Which was only a short walk from Little India home of massive fresh food and wet market. Lingo: Wet Market, is where people kill (usually) and butcher …

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Every single beach we walked past had crystal clea Every single beach we walked past had crystal clear water and stunning sand. All I wanted was to jump in every time. Didn’t help that it was 31 degrees by 9am (87 in Fahrenheit) 
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#australianbeaches #beachdays #summerdays #australiantravel #travellocal #nswtravel #travelnsw #sydneybeaches #thisissydney
Hiking the Mare e Mare in Corsica - absolutely ama Hiking the Mare e Mare in Corsica - absolutely amazing few days. We did this using a self guided walking company… so our bags and clean clothes would be waiting for us each day. I loved the accommodations we stayed in, as everyone was so friendly. But mostly, I loved the views! 
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This weeks recipe from my grandmothers stack of re This weeks recipe from my grandmothers stack of recipe cards is Baked Red Mullet. I had never eaten mullet before… except when she cooked me this meal, but I didn’t know what it was then (I wish I asked more questions). I quite liked it, it was a meaty fish but with a great flake. Her recipe said to peel the tomatoes… I did not do that, because who can be bothered. I also added some chilli. And I served it with beans and potatoes, just like she would have. 
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#grandmotherskitchen #fishrecipes #omnomnom #mulletfish #mulletrecipe  #summermeals
Afternoon bushwalks up Alum Mountain. A nice easy Afternoon bushwalks up Alum Mountain. A nice easy climb, with views that take your breath away. 
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#bushwalk #hiking #getlost #adventure #hollidays #summerdays #nswtravel #travelnsw
Ajaccio - what more can I say Ajaccio - what more can I say
Off on a ramble today to pick some blackberries fo Off on a ramble today to pick some blackberries for our dessert tonight. Problem was I ate two blackberries for everyone I put in my bowl… ended up walking for 7.5kms to get enough.
A great day of bushwalking today, trying hard to g A great day of bushwalking today, trying hard to get my fitness back before my big hike in Corsica… stupid COVID. Loved how many different landscapes there was on this hike, something different every kilometre. 
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#bushwalk #hiking #australianbush #nsw #travellocal #nswtravel #wanderlust #adventure #weekendescape #berowra
London really put a show on today, just enough sun London really put a show on today, just enough sunshine to keep us warm but not so much that it was sweaty while walking around… which is great because we did over 28,000 steps between pubs today. Best way to earn my next drink. 
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Every time I go on a weekend escape to the country Every time I go on a weekend escape to the country I say to myself “I am going to sleep in”… and every single time I wake up at dawn, too excited to sleep. Why can’t I be like that on mondays! 
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Absolutely stealing this Buddha bowl idea - shawar Absolutely stealing this Buddha bowl idea - shawarma chicken, hummus, grated cucumber, pickles, cherry tomatoes and roast potatoes on a bed of lettuce! 
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Day two of hiking the Mare de Mare, it was a very Day two of hiking the Mare de Mare, it was a very intense day! 35,000 steps and so many mountains climbed. But also breath taking views and glorious waterfall swims. These photos do not capture the beauty at all. 
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I may not be a fan of the winter darkness in the u I may not be a fan of the winter darkness in the uk, but I sure do love the late summer evenings with views like this for my aperol spritz. 
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I am a little in love with Corte, up high in the m I am a little in love with Corte, up high in the mountains of Corsica. Beautiful people, epic views, fantastic food and super nosey cat neighbours. 
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Exploring all the beautiful lane ways, getting los Exploring all the beautiful lane ways, getting lost looking at the ceramic art shops and of course the cheese shops… 🤤🤤🤤
It was a scorching hot day today, which makes for It was a scorching hot day today, which makes for some glorious evening photography. Loving these reflections.
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Hello, I’m Helen, AKA The Lite Backpacker – an Australian with an English accent (thanks to having one English parent) on the 30 side of my 20s. Like so many Australians, at 18 I packed up my backpack and headed to Europe, flittering from museum to bar for nearly a year. When I came home I thought I had gotten the “travel bug” out of my system as well as putting on an unhealthy amount of “backpacking weight”. Instead, within 6 months I had booked my next trip, with a vow of finding a way to enjoy travel food without the weight gain. Read More about “About Me”…

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