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Taste of Prague Podcast, Ep 15 - Steffi and David of Gastro Journey, representing Mallorca

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Taste of Prague Podcast, Ep 15 - Steffi and David of Gastro Journey, representing Mallorca

If you’ve been following us online, you know we have just returned from Mallorca, and we loved it. So we wanted to have a chat with the couple that was partly responsible for the great time we had on the island, Steffi and David, aka Gastro Journey, who gave us multiple tips for food and things to do around the island. And we wanted to share that knowledge with you, in case you’re planning to go.

This episode is basically designed for anyone who wants to visit Mallorca. Steffi and David are well-travelled foodies and have some great tips. The things we discuss in this podcast:

  • Current situation in Mallorca, Covid-wise

  • The biggest mistakes tourist make in Mallorca

  • The best time to visit Mallorca

  • The must-tries in Mallorca when it comes to dishes, produce, wine, alcohol, basically what to try and where to try it

  • Mallorca and tourism - the types of tourism Mallorcans love and hate

  • Steffi’s and David’s top three casual and fine dining restaurants, and their top three coffee/breakfast spots

  • Their favorite hidden place to eat, and their favorite beaches on the island

  • What do they actually do for a living, and can they separate their personal affairs from their work affairs?

  • And their guilty pleasures, of course.

Now, we have written a blog post about our trip to Mallorca, so some of the tips given by Steffi and David are already in our tips, and we will add their top threes to the map we have in our blog post.

So sit back and enjoy, and then run book your flights to Mallorca! You’ll love it.


Our trip to Mallorca

Our trip to Mallorca

The TL;DR version: We went to Mallorca. You should go, too. Soon.

It seems that 2021 is the year Covid has forced us to discover places that were under our radar previously. We went to Dubai in February, reluctantly, and we really liked it. Now we’ve been to Mallorca, and we loved it too. We’ll have to confess: if you said „Mallorca“ to us, we’d think beaches, resorts, German retirees, maybe Rafael Nadal? We didn’t know much about the island, and did not expect much. But it was a direct flight, Mallorca’s covid numbers were low, and the testing requirements were not that harsh, so the decision was easy. We went for 10 days.

And boy oh boy, we may have left our heart in Mallorca. We honestly loved our stay. Here’s our small report and some thoughts.


Zuzi's and Jan's Five Favorite Meals Around the World

Zuzi's and Jan's Five Favorite Meals Around the World

File this under „the question no-one’s ever asked us“, but hey Taste of Prague, what’s the five favorite meals on your travels around the world? Hey, if you haven’t noticed, it’s been a really slow year for us, the tourism industry in general, and Prague restaurants, so this is high time we tear up a bit as we recall that thing we used to call… what was it again… travel?

Anyway, consider this inspiration for your own travels when this whole thing blows over. So here we go, Zuzi’s and Jan’s five favorite bites around the world.


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Taste of Prague Podcast, Ep 10 - Taste of Prague's Travel Tips

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Taste of Prague Podcast, Ep 10 - Taste of Prague's Travel Tips

Alright, this is the moment some of you have been waiting for - Zuzi joining Jan behind the mike, and giving some tips about the way we travel. Now, if you’ve been following us for some time, you know that we love to travel, and we have been getting many questions by email and social media about our particular way of traveling. So when we invited everyone to post questions about a month ago on our Instagram feed, we did expect some questions, but we did not expect so many.

As a result, we have decided to record two separate episodes: one about our travel in general, and a second one (later on) about our travel with JJ (now over 2 years old) as a family. We got lots of questions about both and we thought that the answers would be too long for a single episode, and that the questions about family travel with a toddler would be irrelevant to many. The first episode comes out today, and please stay tuned for the second one… eventually.

We have also edited the questions a bit, combining what really were the same questions, but perhaps worded differently. We also skipped questions asking for tips for various destinations because again - answering them would take a long time and would be irrelevant for many. If you need tips for specific destinations, please have a look at our Instagram highlights, or send us an email. We’ll do our best.

We recorded the podcast in the cinema of the Bokovka wine bar and had a lot of fun doing it. We actually recorded it twice, because we were unhappy about how the first recording turned out. But hey, having more wine while recording worked wonders the second time around. Go figure. These are some of the topics we have discussed:

  • When did we start traveling and where?

  • How many trips do we take per year?

  • How do we choose our destinations?

  • Which countries have we visited?

  • What has been our favorite destination so far? Which destination had the best food?

  • Any dream destination we want to visit? Or any places we do NOT want to see and why?

  • How did Jan overcome his fear of flying?

  • How do we buy our flight tickets?

  • How do we choose the type and location of accommodations?

  • How do we research restaurants?

  • Do we book tables at restaurants ahead of time?

  • How much planning is involved in our travels?

  • How do we deal with language barriers?

So stuff like that. The answers take about an hour, but we tried to be brief. Oh, and one more thing: we drop names of products and services during the podcast. We are not affiliated with any of them, and none of the mentions have been paid for in any way. It’s just the products and services we have been using in our travels, nothing more.

Thank you for all those questions, and we hope you like this episode!


Flying with an infant: how we do it

Flying with an infant: how we do it

So you have a baby and/or a toddler and are afraid to fly with them? Been there, done that. We were really nervous before our first flight with JJ, who was 2 months at the time. But 15 months and some 35 flights later, we think we can spread the gospel of flying with your little ones. While you can’t control everything, you can control something, and below are some of the things we do before, when and after we fly with JJ, our toddler who is about to turn 18 months as we write this.

Obviously, your mileage may vary. We’re not saying what we do is the best or the only way to fly with an infant, and you may find your own way that suits you better. But if you’re maybe concerned or nervous about your first flight (and again, we totally get that), you may find our tips below helpful, or at least inspiring to give it a go. Flying with an infant is honestly not that different from flying without one. You just have a small baby or toddler with you who depends on you with his or her life. So no pressure.


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