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Blueberry Tart Dessert Bodega Compostela

5 Restaurants to Try in San Juan, Puerto Rico

March 04, 2013|| ,

Where to eat in San Juan, Puerto Rico: Five delicious restaurants not to miss when visiting this vibrant city.

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Jimmy Carter's - San Diego Food Tour

Bite San Diego: Tasting Hillcrest

November 14, 2012|| ,

We first learned about Bite San Diego through a friend and the hardest part about booking a tour was deciding which location to try out; Hillcrest, Little Italy, North Park, Coronado or Julian.

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How to Eat a Prickly Pear

How to Eat a Prickly Pear

August 30, 2012||

We recently picked up a some Prickly Pears and tried them for the first time. We went into it blindly thinking, “How hard can it be to eat a piece of fruit?”

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Making Flower Pasta

How to Make Pasta from Scratch - In Italy!

August 20, 2012|| ,

From the moment we climbed into Alina’s car, I was already salivating at the thought of all the fresh Tuscan food we were about to cook and devour.

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Fresh Fish - High Five in the Mouth

A Taste of Summer - Celebrating a Movement Beyond Farm to Fork

July 11, 2012||

Fresh fish, an assortment of vegetables, unique sauces and mouth-watering organic Mojitos are just a few of the things you will find at A Taste of Summer, San Diego’s sustainable food movement.

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Fresh Fish - Sicily

Flavor of Sicily: Genuine Hospitality and Copious Amounts of Food

June 18, 2012|| ,

One of the reasons I was so excited to go back to Sicily is because many of Scott’s relatives are still living near Syracusa and Scott had never been to the country where his father emigrated from.

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Insalata Verde - Green Salad in Sicily

Lost in Translation: Insalata Verde in Taormina, Sicily

May 14, 2012|| ,

After a few days of pizza and pasta, I was ready for a nice big salad full of fresh vegetables. The salad options on the menus at most of the restaurants in Sicily were limited, but…

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Riverwalk Dining in a Patriotic Atmosphere

Where to Eat in San Antonio

February 13, 2012|| ,

Our relaxing weekend in San Antonio turned out exactly as planned. We sampled tons of food, took lazy strolls…

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Sydney Fish Market

Eyeballs on Ice - Sydney, Australia

March 23, 2011|| ,

Our first day in Sydney we decided to get lost without a map and this is what we found.

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Christy&Scott

Ordinary Traveler is run by two pro photographers who are torn between two separate worlds - non-stop adventure travel & living a "normal" life in coastal San Diego.

Follow our journey while we juggle the day-to-day life of jobs, friends and family with extreme wanderlust; while testing the waters with our new surf bikini designs.

-Christy & Scott

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