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Welcome to the Voyageurs Gourmands travel blog
Voyageurs Gourmands is a travel blog that has been taking you around the world and introducing you to local flavors since 2014! Discover our European city trips, long-distance adventures, and the world cuisine we have enjoyed along the way. For us, local food is an essential part of a country’s culture, and we make it a point to taste everything and share it with you. Whether exploring vibrant cities or spending time in nature, we are also passionate about photography. On the blog, you’ll find plenty of content about Portugal, our parents’ home country, as well as Paris, where we live… until our next adventure begins. Enjoy!
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Flavors of the World
Alsace Food: 22 Traditional Dishes to Try in Alsace
Ask anyone about Alsace food and you will get the same six answers: choucroute, flammekueche, baeckeoffe, munster, bretzels and kougelhopf. They deserve the reputation. But they are barely the beginning. Fleischschnacka, onion tart, presskopf, streusel, berawecka — there is a whole side of Alsatian food that never leaves the region. Part of what makes the…
What to eat in Ghent: local specialities and where to eat
Of course, our weekend in Ghent was all about food! We’d been told that the city is often considered the culinary capital of Flanders, and we quickly understood why! We found the Belgian specialities we love, with the classic combo of fries, beer, waffles and chocolate. But this trip was also a chance for us…
Yucatan Food: the Traditional Dishes to Try (and Where to Eat Them)
Mexican food is one of those world cuisines we think we know well in France. Or at least, we think we do! A bit conditioned by burritos and fajitas (hello, Old El Paso!), we soon realised that Mexican cuisine is so much more than that. We had a great time discovering real Yucatan food, the…
Caribbean
Where to stay in Guadeloupe: the best areas + the places we tested
Where to stay in Guadeloupe? It sounds like a simple question, but the answer changes everything. The archipelago is bigger than it looks and full of contrasts between Grande-Terre, Basse-Terre and the surrounding islands: depending on where you stay, you’ll have a completely different trip. Between white sand beaches, tropical rainforest, winding roads and small…
Dolphin watching in Martinique: the day we saw dolphins in the wild
Dolphin watching in Martinique went straight onto our list of things to do the moment I found out it was possible! But be careful: we’re talking about heading out to sea to look for them and hoping very hard to see them in the wild… not in a pool like in Punta Cana or Mexico,…
The 15 Best Beaches in Guadeloupe: Our Complete Guide
Lagoons on Grande-Terre, wild beaches on Basse-Terre, coves in Les Saintes: Guadeloupe offers a variety of beaches you rarely find in a single archipelago. There is something for everyone, from family beaches where you can stand up far out to deserted coves at the end of a trail. During our 10-day road trip in Guadeloupe…
City Trips
Things to Do in Châlons-en-Champagne: Our Weekend in the Venice of Champagne
We’ll admit it: Châlons-en-Champagne had never really been on our list… We’d been to the region several times before, to visit Reims or Épernay, and each time Châlons was just “the town we drove through”. Big mistake! So when we had the chance to spend a weekend there, we jumped at it! A night-time boat…
Things to Do in Reims: What to See in 1 or 2 Days
Reims, the historic capital of Champagne, just 45 minutes by train from Paris, is one of those destinations we always put off… and really shouldn’t! Between its UNESCO-listed cathedral, its century-old champagne cellars and its foodie streets, the city has more than enough to fill a day or a proper weekend. Our France bucket list…
Things to do in Ghent: our 2-day weekend itinerary
We had been wanting to visit Ghent for a while… 3 years, to be exact! That summer, we went to Bruges and had seriously thought about combining the two cities for our long weekend. Worried about running out of time, we changed our minds and… we were right to! This time, we were able to…