Eating & Travel

Railroad at Murnau, Wassily Kandinsky (1909)

I think everyone can agree that when you travel, your eating goes down the pan. You spend too much money on food that is average at best, and at worst greasy and makes you feel lousy.

I’m not writing this post because I have some pearls of wisdom on the matter, I’m writing this as I’m sat on a 7 hour flight after having an incredibly bleak in flight meal that was salty, but also too sweet, with questionable pieces of chicken. I shouldn’t have eaten it, but what else are you supposed to do for 7+ hours sat in one place??

The lack of freedom is frustrating, the fact that you can’t have exactly what you crave as you’d ’make’ it at home, when you’re tired and grumpy, is a bitter pill to swallow.

It can however, also be an adventure, being forced to try new cuisines or dishes you’d normally shy away from. Such as stopping on overnight bus journeys at canteens off road in a tropical country, and risking it all for a bowl of noodles.

Or at its worst, being forced to spend €13 on an anemic and under-filled baguette at an airport where the only option was that baguette or the random and incredibly expensive ‘seafood and champagne bar’. I’m yet to meet one person who has actually gone to one of those bars, maybe it’s for when you’re travelling and it’s a special occasion ?? Honeymoons?

Who knows. I’m looking forward to land.