The Street Food Guy

Eating and drinking my way around the world

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Epic Pacific Island Photos

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This December regular as clockwork I’ll be back in the Pacific Islands guiding our Least Visited Countries Tour. These nations despite being some of the least visited truly are some of the most beautiful on earth.

I’ve decided to collect together my most epic images from the Pacific, as well as linking to a few cool videos we did through Pioneer Media.

And if you like what you see, why not join one of our tours?

 Coconut on Enenkio Island near Majuro.

Two kids looking gangsters next to a WW2 gun turret in Tarawa.

Underwater post office in Port Vila Vanuatu. Sexy body provided by Alistair Riddell.

Mashed up WW2 stuff in Tuvalu.

Took a picture of this cutey at the Hotel Honiara in the Solomon Islands. It is really a great hotel.

More love from one of our guests on Tuvalu.

It’s about Kava in Vanuatu. Tastes like shit I’m not gonna lie.

The street food of the Solomon Islands is truly amazing!

Group partying in Tarawa! This was by the parliament building.

Gassing up our ride Funafuti style! Scooter riding is great fun in Tuvalu.

Tuvalu’s shortest point! Global warming is real people.

Epic Images from Serbia and Bosnia

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Spending two months filming in Albania really took a toll on my sanity, hopefully, our Castle Freak reboot will make it all worthwhile, so my holiday to Serbia and Bosnia was very much appreciated! It almost felt like an invisible weight had been lifted from my shoulders!

I have already done more than enough blogs about the trip, but will finish with this last one highlighting some of the photos that I feel encapsulate Belgrade, Banja Luka, and Prijedor!

Enjoy, and feel free to comment!

Music, Food, Drinks, welcome to Prijedor

I have no idea who these people are, but who doesn’t like a selfie at a music festival?

Ok, it’s just a soup, but we were treated to some great home-cooked food with the family we stayed with in Prijedor.

Without a doubt the best cure for a hangover and probably my favourite day in Prijedor.

Cockta and Gentleman Jack in Banja Luka.

Party in the park! Lots of weird drinks and shirts off in Prijedor.

I’ll just leave this one here…

Fabulous dinner, laughs, and of course Rakia with my adopted Serbian family.

Apricot Rakia on the Rakia bar in Belgrade.

And lastly, 3 Islandians holding up the cause for www.letsbuyanisland.com.

Music, Food, Drinks, welcome to Prijedor

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So, it turns out that getting from Kosovo to Serbia is a bit of a problem if you enter Kosovo first, which meant that long story short we needed to travel to Skopje in Macedonia in order to take a bus to Nis, and then another to Belgrade. 13 hours I would have rather avoided.

On arrival, our friend informed us that we would be taking ANOTHER bus the next day to Bosnia. I was not so excited about the bus, but it would be country 143, so what the hell.

The bus took about 6 hours to get Banja Luka, the capital of the Serb Republic (half of what makes Bosnia), and interestingly went via Croatia. Interestingly this meant that I and my Pioneer Media co-founder had managed to do the whole of the old Yugoslavia over the preceding few months.

We were picked up in Banja Luka and whisked straight to Prijedor, where we were to stay with friends of friends and attend a memorial music festival. The memorial was for a local musician and artist called Poledi (see photo), and someone I will blog about in more detail later.

On arrival, we were introduced to the Serbian phrase of “aggressive hospitality”, which meant eating and drinking as quickly as possible so we could head to the park and drink more. Drinking in the park in Prijedor was AMAZING, there was Jager, which always pleases me, but also plum wines, local liquors, and a whole host of homemade stuff. A girl looked at me and said: “you will get fucked up tonight”. She was not wrong.

Music, Food, Drinks, welcome to Prijedor

At the concert, you’re required to put money on a pre-paid card and then spend accordingly. We put on like 20 Euro, and the beers seemed to never end. I even ended up buying beers for the bartender.

The concert itself? I’m not massively into music festivals, but I genuinely like Serbian music, and there were some more than decent acts.

Getting home was a blur, people fell over, street food was eaten, and a taxi driver had his first-ever foreign customers. Overall a successful first night in Prijedor.

5 reasons Belgrade rocks

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Belgrade or Beograd depending on how you like to spell your cities is, without doubt, one of my favorite places on earth. I have been here countless times but seeing it in the height of summer puts a whole new meaning to things.

Here are the Street Food Guy’s top 5 things that make Belgrade rock!

5) Trams and buses are free

trams in Belgrade

OK, so I will disclaimer this and say OBVIOUSLY I did not ride on the trams and buses for free, but, well everyone seems to, and according to my Serbian friends, it is no big deal. I have to say free public transport is a pretty cool thing.

4) They have Rakia bars

I have written about Albanian Rakia, BUT the real McCoy is Serbian rakia. Rakia is like a religion here and several bars cater to the connoisseur of this fine beverage. Frankly, I was in heaven.

3) Great food

I like Balkan food a lot, and Belgrade does it best. Great restaurants, meat, bread, cheese, and of course the aforementioned Rakia! If you like food Belgrade is the place to be.

2) You can small indoors in Belgrade

Do you know that fascistic smoking ban they have everywhere? Not in Belgrade, in fact, bars and restaurants happily have signs advertising your right to smoke. If you are not into smoking and drinking, this probably isn’t the blog for you to be fair.

1)   Serbian people are awesome

I basically have a Serbian family who I have known and visited for 10 years, and I find them, and Serbians in general to be some of the most welcoming and hospitable people on earth. If you are lucky enough to make Serbian friends home-cooked food, and homemade rakia are a given!

That’s my 5 reasons Belgrade is great in the summer!

5 Reasons to Visit Prijedor

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I recently had the pleasure of visiting Bosnia for the first time, and wow it was an epic weekend! The majority of my time was spent in the town of Prijedor, I kind of fell in love with the town a bit, so here are the Street Food Guy’s top 5 reasons to visit!

5) No one else goes there

When it comes to tourism in Bosnia the obsession seems to be war chasing in Sarajevo and Mostar, but hey the war is over and there are other places to visit. The point in the case, we were the first foreigners our taxi driver had ever seen in the town!

4) It’s a city of Murals

Prijedor prides itself on being the city of murals and they are not wrong! Throughout Prijedor you will see some great street art, some of it sanctioned, some of it not. We even saw a drawing of Mr. Hanky.

3) There’s a great swimming spot

On day 2 in Prijedor I was shall we say somewhat hangover, our hosts suggested we went swimming in the river, which apparently the whole town decided to do as well. An absolutely beautiful summer spot, and well it cured my hangover.

2) Parties in the park

Two nights running the main park (with tables) was full of revelers who all brought alcohol, much of it homemade, and we partied away before the music festival we were to later attend. And the best part? Everyone cleaned up after themselves and it was left spotless.

1)   Aggressive hospitality

Our Serbian hosts introduced us to the concept of “aggressive hospitality”, where you are overfed and overwatered accompanied by great conversation. In my experience, Serbs are the best hosts in the world, but Bosnian Serbs take things to a whole new level!

So, that’s my view of Prejidor! I think realistically we would have had a much different experience had we not been accompanied by Serb friends, but come here anyway, who knows you might make new friends.