While Turkey is in the EU Customs Union, it does not have to abide by its laws unless it has specifically adopted the directive or regulation. This means that restaurants do not have to have information about allergens in their dishes in the same way as EU restaurants do. That said, in the touristy and non-touristy places we visited, we found staff very friendly and willing to try to help. If you are staying in a resort, I dare say…
This post is part of a collection of pages about gluten free restaurants in various locations.Back to list of locations. The big problem with eating gluten free in Southeast Asia is the hidden gluten. It’s reasonably obvious that bread or pasta has gluten in it, but in Thailand, for example, it’s almost impossible to see the oyster sauce or the soy sauce that will make a celiac violently ill. In Thailand, it took me over a month to work out…
Everything I read about object oriented code gives an example, like an animal, that has features such as a number of legs, and a breed, and any number of other, entirely-irrelevant-to-real-life-examples. These examples are good at describing the very, very high-level concept, but they fail to provide the concrete examples that a user might genuinely need in their coding life. A module I have written pulls data from Active Directory, and has functions that can change that data. I believe…
There are many reasons why people choose to eat gluten free. All the way from being trendy, to a full-blown allergy. As a celiac, I do not have an allergy, but eating gluten causes serious damage to my intestines, pain and other less palatable symptoms. When I am “glutened”, I like to think I know it (even if the research suggests it’s unlikely) because the symptoms are so manifest. But how can you travel all around the world, and be…
I am writing this in America. In New Hampshire to be precise. And being more precise than America is very important – this country is huge. Last month my wife and I drove for what felt like an age, driving on reasonably good roads westwards towards and into Vermont. And despite driving for ages, Google Maps only welcomed us to one new State. And the state we went into, and the state we left, are both among the tiniest. Two…
Much to the annoyance of all around me, I have been making mental (and verbal) lists of all the things that we’re doing for the last time. For example on Sunday we made our last trip on Thai public transport, last night was our last night spent in this apartment and this blog post is likely to be the last one written in Thailand. As I am writing this, I am looking around our bare apartment which we have cleaned…