So your best buddies are planning a spring ski trip to Chamonix, France. Clear blue skies, deep powdery snow, and ski lifts that keep running well into April. Sounds great, right? Until your friends turn to you with that concerned, pitying look and ask, “But what are you going to…
A few weeks ago, I wrote a guest post over on Vegan Food Quest highlighting a vegan dish from each of the 20 regions of Italy. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can check it out here. Paul and Caryl – the vegan foodies behind Vegan Food Quest – have now…
Vegetarian and Vegan Madrid RestaurantsAre you headed to Madrid and worried that, whatever you order, it’s going to come sprinkled with ham? Relax. The vegan movement is booming in the Spanish capital, and vegan and vegetarian visitors will be spoiled for choice. Whether you’re looking for traditional Spanish tapas, a…
If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you know that I’m all about busting stereotypes about travel destinations where it’s supposedly difficult to be vegan. Think Italy is all about cheese? Nope, it isn’t! Think you’ll starve as a vegan in Spain? I promise, you won’t! Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal…
While pasta is probably what first comes to mind when you think about Italian food, and rightly so, pasta dishes are not well suited to the frenetic pace of modern life. Let’s face it, it’s just not that easy to slurp up a plate of spaghetti all’arrabbiata as you dash…
I’m always going on about how vegan-friendly Italy is as a travel destination. And it’s true. You definitely don’t have to limit yourself to fully vegan restaurants in Rome or any other Italian city. No matter where you are in the country, you’ll always be able to find a vegan meal of…
Update May 2020: Lots of new vegan tour options have popped up since I wrote this post! Go here to see the full list. It might seem odd for me to even be mentioning group tours on this blog. After all, the whole reason I created The Nomadic Vegan in the first…
Merry Christmas from sunny Italy! I was really excited to find these very special Christmas treats here in Bari, in the south of Italy, so I made a short video so that I could share them with you. Like most dishes in Mediterranean cuisine, these sweets, called cartellate in Italian,…
Today I’d like to introduce you to a very special guest blogger, Moise Ngwesi (a.k.a. Moses Chris), who joins us all the way from the Democratic Republic of the Congo! Back in 2010, I had the amazing privilege of travelling to the DRC, where I met a family of mountain…
With Christmas just around the corner, I know many of you will soon be travelling, so I thought it would be a great time for another edition of the Sky High Vegan series. This time, we’ll be taking a vegan tour of the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia! Did…
Hi, I'm Wendy. I'm an intrepid traveler, vegan foodie and animal lover. I travel all over the world (117 countries and counting!) uncovering vegan treasures to show you how you can be vegan anywhere. Read more on my About page.
