Some Favorite Things

Thinking back on my trip, these are a few of my favorite things from each country I visited:

Israel

• So much good Middle Eastern food!
• Falafel
• Hummus and hummus restaurants

• Fantastic creative salads
• Sheesha
• Everyone honking at you when your car doesn’t start going before the stoplight turns green again (just kidding)

Spain

Jamon Iberico, jamon Iberico, and more jamon iberico. The stuff just melts in your mouth!

Dark Chocolate and Orange Digestive cookies

Blablacar

Cheap and fashionable clothes in trendy stores

Stores that open late… I love night shopping

Morocco

• Juices- fresh squeezed OJ, avocado au lait
• A ground fig and almond mixture that tastes delicious with yoghurt
• Tagines
  

• Berber Omelettes (The cat often comes with the meal in Morocco)

Moroccan Salad with Sardines (red onions, tomatoes, and sardines flavored with cumin and salt. Surprisingly delicious)

Ethiopia

• Fruit juices- When you order a fruit juice, instead of mixing all of the juices together, they layer them, so your glass is a pretty rainbow of colors.  You can decide which layers to mix or drink each layer separately. I like drinking each layer separately except for the avocado, which tastes better mixed

• Fruit salads- There are all of these little shops that sell only fruit juices and fruit salads. The fruit salads were my favorite for breakfast.

• Tibs- Diced morsels of roasted meat
• Bumping shoulders in greeting

• Shoulder dancing- Man, they can move body parts in a way I never thought possible! Everyone was mostly sitting for the song I filmed, so this one was pretty tame. But it got pretty crazy in there! And as you can see, they start learning young :)


Tanzania


• The thousands of ways people greet each other. After a month, people would still greet me in ways that I didn't know how to respond to
• Samosas
• Cashews
• How quiet children are- I never heard a child cry or throw a tantrum