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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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What I Learnt on an Olive Oil Tasting Tour

Yep that’s right, you read that correctly – An Olive Oil Tasting tour! Portugal is known for its olive oil so it made sense that during my time in Porto I sample some of its amazing goodness. You can find tours easily on Viator or TripAdvisor if you would like …

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How to Create your Priority List for Travel

Everything we do in life is about priorities, and it has to be. If we didn’t break everything down in order of importance I think our brains would explode from the effort of giving the same amount of energy to every single task. We prioritise work tasks, friends, family, weekend …

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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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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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