If you want to eat and drink at the same time in Algiers the world is far from your oyster, with venues being scant to say the least. Caracoya Restaurant though is one of these few gems and it so turns out the food and drinks are not all that bad. And perhaps most importantly…
Ghardaia is a pretty damned cool place, but the highlight of a trip here, for The Street Food Guy at least, is the Souk El-Gharbia. This colossus of a place is not just some tourist hell hole, but a full-on eating, sleeping, living market. And that does not just mean life, but also great street…
While not quite as bad as Syria or South Sudan the money situation in Libya is still pretty whacked, with you not only having to change it in a market square, but wheel barrows of money also being part of the adventure. It is though relatively easy to change money if you have local help,…
OK, so while Tunis is not exactly a tourist Mecca there is enough foot flow to necessitate people deciding to make touristy restaurants that drain your money! Restaurant Essaraya is one of these places. This is something I could at least forgive if they served you a beer, but alas it is dry, with the…
Despite previously positioning myself as slightly left of Pol Pot I now eat big capitalist wanky festivals with free swag. And for all this stuff it does not go much better than the World Travel Market at the Expo Centre down at Customs House in the London Docklands. Here over 50,000 people attend each year…
OK, so while Soriyabori Resort is actually the only real hotel on Kratié, save for a bunch of homestays of differing quality, it could also be argued that it is the best hotel in the whole of Kratié province. Located on the north of Koh Trong, Soriyabori is described as a “confidential resort” of Khmer-style villas,…
