🇬🇧 Shake your life

It is interesting to tour in the same city we already live. This help us to keep a curious eye on everything and it can help us to defeat prejudices.
This week I was lunching in a restaurant and close to me there were a couple of old people. She told the waitress they live in a distant part of the city and use to go to the restaurants close to home, but, as that day was her birthday, he invited her to go to that restaurant instead. They had already visited the restaurant once, for the birthday party of a friend, some years before. The old lady was enchanted with the environment and the food. I must say I also liked the place.
To try a new restaurant; to go to other park to walk with our dogs; see a movie in a cinema you don't use to go... Start doing things differently! Shake your life! It's easy!

Nycka, the nomad.

🇬🇧 The importance to exercise with your dog

A dog is a social being. Although some breeds are very calm, even them need to exercise and to meet other dogs. Observe how happy they are when they meet other dogs anywhere.
I believe to have a dog is like to have a child. Children need to play with others and to learn from these experiences. Dogs also must to meet other dogs to be healthy and happy. They recognise themselves as dogs while meeting other dogs.
Even when you have more than one dog and enough space for them to play in your garden, it's important to offer for them and for yourself this experience of going out together at least once a day. Don't miss this compromise!

Nycka, the nomad.

🇬🇧 Cats, dogs and holidays

What do you do to make your pets happier during the holidays?
I think if you plan to travel, you include them, looking for hotels where they're accepted as well as yourself. Don't you?
If you stay home and organise a party or a meeting with family and friends, do you ask them to bring their pets the same way they'd bring their children? Or do you left the dog alone in the garden or the cat closed in some room not to disturb the guests?
Here, at my house, it's easier I ask someone to get out than to isolate my pets because they bother someone.
Think and tell me what you'll do during next holidays with your cats, dogs or both.

Nycka, the nomad.

🇬🇧 Fruits and vegetables for picky eaters

When we think about well being we think about to eat well, to have a balanced diet. I think this must start when we're children, but some of us did not have the healthy example at home, so, it's never too late to change.

I was a picky eater when I was a child. My regular meals were rice, beans, potatoes and meat or chicken. Currently I love vegetables, but I'm still picky to eat fruits. If you give me a watermelon to eat I'll refuse. The taste is good, so, I'd love the juice of that fruit, but all that seeds discourage me to eat it.

How did I change?

I started trying chinese food when I was 22, soon after to move from my hometown to study at the university in another. In the city where I was born there weren't chinese restaurants. Soy sauce is helpful to change the taste of the vegetables, so, I loved Yakissoba (that chinese pasta with vegetables and meat). The same time, at home one of my roommates used to prepare some good soufflés with vegetables. Every week the day she cooked she prepared some soufflé and I liked. As I like to cook (but only when my creativity can participate), later I started trying to prepare vegetables trying new flavours. Some years ago I tried to be vegetarian and, avoiding a soy-based diet, I chose to try all the vegetables I could. And my diet became richer and colourful.

For fruits my path is to eat them the way I exclude what displeases me. To have the benefits of watermelon, I drink the juice or try an ice cream. To eat banana I fry it and eat it with sugar. Or I can prepare a cake or a smoothie with yogurt or milk, banana and something more to add some colour.

It's like with friendship. Some friends are great to go out with; others are as fans of cinema as I am, so we often see some movie together, other ones like the same kind of music and we go to some shows together, and so on. The same way, there are fruits and vegetables we like to eat raw, other ones we prefer cooked, baked, fried or as juices, smoothies, ice creams. Some we need something to change its taste or colour. Other we appreciate the colour and taste. And somewhat we find the balance for our bodies. I recommend you to visit a good nutritionist instead of follow these crazy diets we often see as the trend of the moment. Currently, some of them are about to cut gluten, lactose or carbohydrates. I prefer to cut nothing and be open to try new flavours, new mixes of ingredients, new experiences.

Nycka, the Nomad

🇬🇧 About restaurants and other places to eat

To be fair, I must consider some points when talking about some restaurant or any other place to eat.

The main points I'll consider are:

• The environment. What kind of people did I see there? What kind of neighbourhood have the place? And other related points.
• The size of the place and its capacity to receive people.
• The address. Where the restaurant is.
• Access. If it's easy to go there? Is there easy parking? Is it easy to go with a cab?
• Hygiene.
• Service. Does the waiters and other professionals serve me with sympathy, agility and other desirable qualities? Does the place offer the option to pack the food to take home? Does it offer delivery service? Does it accept dogs and cats? What do the restaurant offer for the pets if they're accepted? Is the space reserved to pet owners as good as the other spaces in the restaurant?
• The menu. Variety, originality, quality, etc.
• Prices.
• Distinguishability. The unique qualities of the business.
• Positive and negative points considering everything related to the experience.
• Cultural, social, financial and environmental values.
• Pet friendly businesses able to provide an excellent experience for tutor and pets gain a bonus.

Nycka, the Nomad

🇬🇧 About hotels and other places to stay

To be fair, I must consider some points when talking about some hotel or any other place where to stay during our travels.

The main points I'll consider are:

• The environment. What kind of people did I see there? What kind of neighbourhood have the place? And other related points.
• The size of the hotel and its capacity to receive people.
• The address. Where the hotel is.
• Access. If it's easy to go there? Is there easy parking? Is it easy to go with a cab? Do they offer transportation between the local airport and the hotel for the guests? Is this service free or charged, if they offer it?
• Hygiene.
• Service. Does the professionals serve me with sympathy, agility and other desirable qualities? Does the hotel offer some way for the guest tell the team not to enter the room when the guest doesn't want to be disturbed? Does the team respect this message? Does the hotel accept dogs and cats? Is there some limitations related to the pets? What do the hotel offer for the pets if they're accepted?
• The food and drink options. Variety, originality, quality, etc.
• Prices.
• Distinguishability. The unique qualities of the hotel.
• Positive and negative points considering everything related to the experience.
• Cultural value, social value, environmental value and financial value.
• Pet friendly business able to really help the traveler and the pets gain extra bonuses.

Nycka, the Nomad