Vegan Sustainability Magazine - Autumn 2015
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of the rest, just in case we got hungry later.<br />
The next day, after polishing off the various<br />
dinners and cake we had brought back to our hotel<br />
for breakfast, we headed back to the main square<br />
and this time we dined upstairs. Among their many<br />
dishes was something I had been craving for years,<br />
stringy, stretchy, cheesy pizza. After placing our<br />
orders we sat in the window and watched a parade<br />
as it passed below. “I hope my pizza will be amazingly<br />
melty” I mentioned to my friend who had witnessed<br />
my disappointment on many an occasion<br />
when vegan pizzas had looked more barren and dry<br />
than the lunar landscape when placed in front of<br />
me. I needn't have worried because the second<br />
miracle in as many days was about to occur, and in<br />
front of my very eyes there appeared the ooziest,<br />
meltiest pizza that there ever was. Manna! I was<br />
speechless. My friend was delighted for me and for<br />
himself when his as-they-should-be hot-dogs arrived.<br />
<strong>Vegan</strong> Holiday in Paris<br />
by Regimantas Lukosius<br />
Travelling is something I loved ever since I<br />
had an opportunity to do it. Meeting different people,<br />
experiencing various cultures, traditions. Travelling<br />
was the reason I have decided to take up photography.<br />
And that has changed the experience significantly.<br />
I am not talking about the bigger camera<br />
bag and a tripod, but the perspective it gave me.<br />
It made me more aware of the surroundings, made<br />
me look more, go further. Another major shift in<br />
travelling experience happened after I went vegan.<br />
I had been vegan for about 4 months before I<br />
went on my first vegan holiday to Paris. Although<br />
it was only for a few days, it taught me a few valuable<br />
lessons. The most important one is to think<br />
and plan in advance. Paris is a brilliant place for<br />
food (I have been there few times before) but the<br />
notion of veganism does not seem to be all that<br />
popular, even frowned upon in some places. I was<br />
lucky to meet a Parisian guy at one of the vegan<br />
meet-ups in Dublin just weeks before my trip. He<br />
explained to me how unfriendly and even hostile<br />
some people might be towards vegans, especially<br />
when it comes to food and dining out. I have also<br />
Wroclaw is a beautiful town in which to wander<br />
and in between eating sessions at Vega we<br />
stumbled across a few other vegan cafes during our<br />
walks. We even happened across a 100% vegan<br />
grocery.<br />
It is easy to be vegan in Poland. Every city we<br />
visited had a few fully vegan cafes, restaurants,<br />
even ice-cream shops. There's no need to load yourself<br />
up with names and addresses of potential restaurants<br />
and maps before you head off, you'll find<br />
vegan signs and wonders easily, just don't forget to<br />
bring loose fitting trousers!<br />
Our favourite finds:<br />
Wroclaw: http://barvega.wroclaw.pl<br />
Krakow: www.glonojad.com<br />
Gdansk: http://avocado.info.pl/<br />
Irene Sheedy is a globetrotting translator, committed<br />
vegan and a dedicated student and teacher of<br />
yoga. https://yogavestra.wordpress.com/<br />
learned that there aren’t that many restaurants in<br />
Paris that would cater specifically for vegans. He<br />
did give me the name of one – “Gentle Gourmet<br />
Café”. At the time I figured that one restaurant will<br />
be enough for a couple of days, surely I will find<br />
some place that serves simple salad? Big mistake.<br />
Anyone who’s been to Paris knows that there is no<br />
shortage of restaurants, cafes and bars. However,<br />
unless you don’t eat any animal products, you<br />
rarely notice how little choice you might have on<br />
their menus.<br />
It took me half a day to realise that I should<br />
have done more homework. After arriving at our<br />
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