SECRETS OF SPANISH GASTRONOMY Guest post by foodie, cinnamon tea lover and Malaga native Francisco Pinto Since I was a child, in my family, we have been enthusiastic travellers. Now, with my wife, I am trying to keep that habit up. I look for...
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SECRETS OF SPANISH GASTRONOMY

  Guest post by foodie, cinnamon tea lover and Malaga native Francisco Pinto 

Since I was a child, in my family, we have been enthusiastic travellers. Now, with my wife, I am trying to keep that habit up. I look for something authentic, merging with local people and watching their customs. There is so much to learn from others that the things I like I incorporate them into my personal life to the point that I even learned German.


Most of my current spots in Everplaces are in Spain. This is a nice country with an enviable climate and gastronomic culture. Spanish cuisine has a wide selection of dishes. It is said that our mountainous orography acted as a natural barrier to communication among regions until the last century and that had an influence on the food. Our cooking methods and ingredients remain simple and unalterable for centuries. Our essential ingredient is always a trickle of olive oil. If I would have to mention three typical dishes they would be: tapas, Spanish omelette and Iberian ham.

Each region from Spain has its own cuisine: fish and seafood from Galicia, paella from Valencian Community, botifarra from Catalonia, Manchego cheese from Castilla-La Mancha, sobrassada and ensaimada from the Balearic Islands, and fried fish and gazpacho from Andalusia. A good meal needs a good drink and we have some of that in Spain. Spanish wines from La Rioja or Ribera del Duero are internationally known. Not lesser known is Cava — sparkling wine mostly produced in Catalonia.
 
We have a lot of cafeterias and, specially in the south, tearooms. If you like to drink something special, Moroccan tea — green tea with mint leaves — is a must. Personally, I taste brewing black tea with slices of cinnamon and star anise sweetened with maple syrup. Check out my favourite tea house on Everplaces.



As I am a big fan of Moleskine notebooks, I filled them up with map clippings and notes for all the places I wanted to go to. After visiting them, if the place was not worth it, then I crossed it off the list. However, it had some snags. Sharing was unbearable. When friends asked me for recommendations, I had to scan the pages.

Later smartphones became popular and after a couple of geolocation services I came across Everplaces. It is pretty much what I was looking for — offline mode, private places, images, maps, notes and easy to share all your profile without a click. I find the private checkbox very helpful. When someone recommends me a place I add it as a private place until I visit it and decide if it becomes an Everplace.

Check out Francisco’s food recommendations in Spain and prepare your next trip. 

Photo credit: livingathome.de
BEST ORGANIC RESTAURANTS IN BERLIN In Berlin and looking for recommendations for the best organic or vegan restaurants? Meet Patrick from Germany, a long-time blogger about organic food and sustainable consumption. He is an expert on organic places...
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BEST ORGANIC RESTAURANTS IN BERLIN

In Berlin and looking for recommendations for the best organic or vegan restaurants? Meet Patrick from Germany, a long-time blogger about organic food and sustainable consumption. He is an expert on organic places and vegan food in Germany and shares his recommendations with us. 

  GUEST POST BY PATRICK BOLK

There’s a lot of good reasons to travel, I love exploring new cities or areas. Wherever I travel though I always look out for new organic or vegan places, restaurants, cafés, etc. Not only cause I love good food, but also because I write for two blogs. One is focusing on organic places in and around Berlin, and the other one on vegan places all over Germany.

I use Everplaces to pin down the place, add some photos I later use on my blogs, write down some first notes. But I also love discovering nice parks, crazy pubs and much more by the way. I’m just very curious!

Everplaces is an app I really always wished for. Years ago I used real paper city maps and I put little stickers on the places I found - in preparation of my travel or during my stay. Everplaces makes it digital and much easier. Especially in cities like Berlin I find new interesting places on a daily basis, and there are so many that you can easily forget some of them. Not anymore with Everplaces.



Vego Foodworld: I love Fast Food, especially when it’s organic and vegan. Vego is one oft the best places to go for that, in a very nice area just around the Helmholtzplatz.



La Mano Verde: If you want to go out for a romantic dinner, this is a great place to go. Almost completely organic, 100% vegan, very nice atmosphere, great food.



Rice up: Have you ever tried Onigiris? Very famous in Japan already, now also in the Subway Station “Schönleinstraße” in Berlin. You should give it a try, and the area is very cool, too.



Volckswirtschaft: The Punk of the organic restaurants. Very cool atmosphere, great food, great drafted organic beer. Located at the Boxhagener Platz, where you can visit a cool flea market on Sundays.



Check out Patrick’s food recommendations in Berlin and prepare your next trip. 


Credits to campus.tip-berlin.de, germanygoesraw.files.wordpress.com, berlin.de, myspace.com for the images
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Check out Jonas’ food recommendations in San Francisco and prepare your next trip. 

FOR THE LOVE OF FOOD AND TRAVEL Meet Jonas, an IT entrepreneur, a big foodie and adventurous traveller. Copenhagen is his base, but the world is his kitchen. Jonas uses Everplaces to keep track of his food discoveries all over the world. He is just...
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FOR THE LOVE OF FOOD AND TRAVEL

Meet Jonas, an IT entrepreneur, a big foodie and adventurous traveller. Copenhagen is his base, but the world is his kitchen. Jonas uses Everplaces to keep track of his food discoveries all over the world. He is just back from his travels in Hong Kong and Vietnam, bringing plenty of delicious and tempting tips in his hand luggage.

My girlfriend and I traveled to Hong Kong and Vietnam in March. We are both crazy foodies and love trying new restaurants. Food experiences almost always end up being some of our greatest memories when thinking back at where we have been together, but it is always a conversation of “Where exactly was that great seafood restaurant in Cape Town?” and “Do you remember the name of that little hotel we stayed at in Stellenbosch?”. So having installed Everplaces before the trip, we were looking forward to saving the memories in a more structured place than our mind this time :)

Hong Kong and Vietnam are melting pots of cool restaurants. From the tiny street kitchens selling wonderful local delicacies to the international Michelin star restaurants, there are thousands of choices. So finding some that we loved and being able to save them with photo and location (Everplaces works offline which is vital when abroad as my provider charges 18 USD/mb for roaming data) was wonderful. It actually ends up becoming somewhat of an obsession to make your collection as nice as possible.

If I hadn’t saved all the places we went, I would never have been able to recommend the places we found to others if/when I get asked “So, you went to Vietnam, can you recommend some good places to eat and stay?” Actually, I was in Vietnam 15 years ago and it turns out I didn’t remember a single specific place from my trip back then. I am sure that whatever gadget I will be using in 15 years from now, I will pray for it to support my Everplaces collection, because from now on, ill be collecting great travel memories in there!

   Jonas Åradsson


Check out Jonas’ tips on Hong Kong and Vietnam and prepare your next trip.


EVERPLACES GIVES OPEN ACCESS TIL SUNDAY

Last Friday we saw a surge of people contacting us because they were going somewhere cool, remarkable or useful and they wanted Everplaces to save and share the places.

This weekend we want to enable this again. So we’re opening for access to create an account for everyone until Sunday. That means that you can get your account right now, jumping the beta queue! 

We’re closing access again Sunday evening. Get access now by going to everplaces.com and creating your account. 

Here’s some of the reasons people use Everplaces. What’s your reason? 


Happy saving and sharing wonderful places!

Tine, 
CEO, Everplaces