About Jodi Ettenberg

Hello! My name is Jodi and I’m a former lawyer currently traveling (and eating) my way around the world, one country at a time. I don’t tend to have a set plan or bucket list of things I want to see or place I need to enjoy. Instead, I’ve found myself organically moving from one place to the next based on a food recommendation or a fellow traveler’s enthusiasm for a city somewhere far away. It’s meant that my travels have had a flow to them, linked by common connections and shared meals.

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Visual Adventure: Laos

Visual Adventure: Laos

Jodi Ettenberg April 24, 2013 2

Travellers often come back from Laos a little wistful.  ”It’s like Thailand 15 years ago,” they say. “I wish it could stay the same.” Tourism and development change a place quite quickly and in

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Five Ways to Make the Most of a Layover in Reykjavik, Iceland

Five Ways to Make the Most of a Layover in Reykjavik, Iceland

Jodi Ettenberg March 7, 2013 81

Got some time in Iceland?Jodi Ettenberg of Legal Nomads shares five ways to make the most of your layover

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Exploring the Many Different Sides of the Philippines

Exploring the Many Different Sides of the Philippines

Jodi Ettenberg February 11, 2013 12

Jodi Ettenberg shares some of her favourite spots to visit in the Philippines.

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Where do Locals eat in Madrid on Sundays?

Where do Locals eat in Madrid on Sundays?

Jodi Ettenberg January 15, 2013 0

Part of the great fun in having a travel blog is that my readers are as enthused about food as I am. It was great to get an email from one of them when

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Tips for Visiting Myanmar (Burma) Safely

Tips for Visiting Myanmar (Burma) Safely

Jodi Ettenberg November 15, 2012 2

Legal Nomad Jodi Ettenberg shares tips for visiting Myanmar (Burma) safely

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Fun Street Foods from Thailand

Fun Street Foods from Thailand

Jodi Ettenberg August 29, 2012 7

Those who have travelled with me know that I’m slightly obsessed with food, and my preferences while on the road are to eat it where locals do: street stalls, night markets, hawker stalls and

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International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day

Jodi Ettenberg March 8, 2012 1

After years of long-term travel, certain things become constants in your life. The farm animals on a bus in Central or South America, the smiles from street food vendors in Asia, the fact that

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Foods from Morocco

Foods from Morocco

Jodi Ettenberg March 7, 2012 2

When people think about travel to Morocco, they often evoke images of colour and symmetry: the geometric architecture of the country’s many mosques, the metal studded doorways of winding medinas, the lines of leather

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Highlights from Morocco: Two Weeks of Travel in Photos

Highlights from Morocco: Two Weeks of Travel in Photos

Jodi Ettenberg March 6, 2012 0

After several weeks of sand and sun and mountain peaks in Morocco with G Adventures, it’s hard to know where to start. As the trip itinerary notes, it’s a fairly ambitious schedule, covering more

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Food, Spices & Adventures Await in Morocco

Food, Spices & Adventures Await in Morocco

Jodi Ettenberg March 5, 2012 0

This post marks my first for G Adventures as part of their Wanderers in Residence programme, and in a few weeks I’ll be hopping on my first ever group tour. Other than smaller, short-term

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