I love to travel and have traveled all over the world. My list keeps getting longer. Some places that are high on my list: Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Morocco, Argentina, Chile, and Hong Kong. Having traveled all over the world, solo, with friends and my husband, I like to eat well. It doesn’t always have to be a 5 star restaurant as I really do appreciate the small, family run places where you get to know the people.
Whether You are dining at a Michelin restaurant or a small local, family run place, it is important to shoe respect by dressing appropriately. I don’t mean you must dress fancy all the time but it is respectable, especially when traveling to walk into a dining establishment looking clean and dresses nicely.
Traveling makes it hard when clothes have been in a suitcase and have possibly become wrinkled, but as long as you look presentable then you are fine. There are many ways to show respect to where you are dining at a restaurant, visiting a museum, taking a walking tour and even trying to get a reservation.
I have found when traveling solo or with my husband if it was challenging trying to get a reservation online through one of the online platforms, sometimes by stopping in and letting them know you would like to dine with them, things open up. I seem to have good luck as long as you are open to sitting at the bar or eating on the early/late side but if a place is being accommodating then so should you.
I have even traveled so to dine at a specific restaurant. I love travel because there is always something new to try or a new adventure to go on. I love exploring grocery stores, deli’s, bakeries, and farmer’s markets when traveling. I love talking to the locals to find out where they go, where they eat and what I should see?
Explore, eat and keep a journal. I love to look back at meals or restaurants I can recommend to friends traveling. I love visiting museums, churches, walking tours, food tours, as there is so much to be learned.
