Beans! Falafel and ‘Free-From Food’ Travel

Beans! Falafel and ‘Free-From Food’ Travel

Happy weekend! 🙂 Those of you who have had half term this week, I hope you enjoyed it to the full (like we did)! 🙂

If you read my last post you will have seen that we are travelling… but where are we?! Here are some clues…

The buildings here have a lot of glass…

They come in all shapes and sizes

If you’re not used to buildings like this, you’ll be snapping photos all day!

There is a lot of water in this city and it’s an important gateway for transport.

Don’t be fooled into thinking this is an old style trolley tram – this city has a hydrogen-powered, zero-emission street trolley tram!

Pink elephants? I just thought they were too cute not to share!

Let’s have a look at what ‘Free-From’ food is available here? For a start there’s fruits – mostly melons, apples, oranges, grapes, avocado, mango, pineapple, limes and plums from what we’ve seen. Vegetables don’t tend to feature too much as main meals, but salads are available in most places and the people are friendly enough to provide something different to what’s on the menu!

Falafel! Yes… this is fast becoming a vegan favourite and it is widely available here – just ask! As with most things here it doesn’t appear to be over processed, generally just chickpeas and herbs! 🙂 Almost always served with houmous and usually bread – but ask if you can switch the bread for salad if you’re gluten free.

This portion was supposed to contain 10 falafels! Even I’m not that greedy!!!

Salad and very smooth houmous drizzled with olive oil.

Beans! I love beans, lentils, chickpeas and suchlike but not usually for breakfast – okay we do quite often have chickpeas for breakfast actually (these less the veg)! In our hotel there are these same beans everyday! Not British baked beans no! (although they did have those this morning)! but beans which are quite literally just beans! Well so it seems!

Beans for breakfast (yes I know it looks more like a lunch plate)!

Any ideas yet where we are? Have a look at this… BIG fun!

Desert! I LOVE the desert!!!

Oh yes!!! Those big diesel guzzling landcruisers tear through the desert dunes ferociously! Skidding, sliding, FAST!!!

So now you have it… shiny tall random buildings, fruits, falafel, houmous and beans…where are we?!? 😀