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Bee’s Nise-ko

Bee’s Nise-ko

by Calvin Sun | Feb 23, 2024 | February 2024: The Hokkaido Snowpocalypse, Fit for Foodies, Flying Fancy, Japan, March 2024: The Pacific Island Hopper

  Thank you David Park for some of these photos It all started with saying yes. Isn’t that how it always starts? “Yes” to an invitation on Clubhouse during the pandemic led to a “yes” to Yacht Week Sardinia, which led to a...
Tender-ife

Tender-ife

by Calvin Sun | Nov 27, 2023 | Canary Islands, Fit for Foodies, November 2023: The Canary Islands, Spain, What Dreams May Come

  The original plan was supposed to be Libya in November. But due to world events and the difficulty of obtaining visas in time, I didn’t want to try to push my luck that I had enjoyed 16 times over with Syria the month prior. So I moved Libya in April...
Who’s the Bosra Now?

Who’s the Bosra Now?

by Calvin Sun | Sep 24, 2023 | Fit for Foodies, September 2023: Syria, Syria, What Dreams May Come

    After recovering from an extremely eventful night in Damascus, we woke up at 10am this morning to drive south 2 hours to Bosra. Along the way we got to check out a very deserted rest stop where a man named Qasim Al-Deri asked if we knew another tour...
Dance to the Rethymno of the Night

Dance to the Rethymno of the Night

by Calvin Sun | Jul 24, 2023 | Crete, Fit for Foodies, Greece, July 2023: The Greek Epic, Serendipitous!

  On our 3rd day in Crete, we packed up our things and drove out east to Rethymno, a charming resort city between Chania and Heraklion.     Like many other cities on Crete, Rethymno was founded by the Minoans and was then occupied by the Romans, the...
Asmara Times You Fail, Eritrea Harder

Asmara Times You Fail, Eritrea Harder

by Calvin Sun | May 24, 2023 | Eritrea, Fit for Foodies, May 2023: Horn of Africa, The Nightlife

  After 5 days in Somaliland, we attempted to fly out from Hargeisa on a scheduled 12:00pm Ethiopian Airlines flight to Addis Ababa so we could make our connecting Ethiopian Airlines flight at 5:10pm in Asmara. However, when I looked down at my watch to see...
“Laas Geel!” “To Where?” Berbera!

“Laas Geel!” “To Where?” Berbera!

by Calvin Sun | May 20, 2023 | Fail, Fit for Foodies, How's the weather?, May 2023: Horn of Africa, Somalia, Somaliland, Unrecognized Territories, Way Way Off the Beaten Path

  After breakfast this morning, we visited Hargeisa’s livestock market where locals allowed us to purchase our very own camel or goat!     Here also happens to be the only place in the world where you can find the original rare black-headed sheep...
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