Hey y’all. Idk if this is the community for this because it seems mostly link posts, but here goes:

How do you go about finding food in a country you don’t speak the language of? I’ve just came back from an Italy hiking “vacation” that caused me two meltdowns in just 4 days. It was a really rough hike and I’ve been the weakest of the group and didn’t make it to the top. I don’t want to go into details but i had a really rough time and food usually is my comfort zone helping me reset from the shitty stuff.

Now the problem was that i don’t speak Italian and we went to a bunch of cool looking places only to see the menu was not translated and didn’t have vegan or not labels on it so i caused everyone to not go there. So instead of comfort, food search was more anxiety inducing and I’d like to avoid that in the future. It’s been the first time for me to visit a foreign country since going vegan and I was shocked by the lack of consideration for vegans in a lot of places.

So yeah how do you prep for tours where you don’t know which part of which town you’re on every day?

  • sanity_is_maddeningEnglish
    8•21 hours ago

    Oh, there’s an app called “HappyCow”. It’s an app that helps anyone find vegan restaurants or restaurants with vegan options with geolocation. It’s a very famous app amongst Vegans. And it’s not recent at all.

    I install it when I travel for the reasons you just describe.

    I’m sorry to hear about your hard time. Hope that app helps you the next time you travel.

    • Sas [she/her]OP
      2•14 hours ago

      Oh thanks for that. That would’ve been very helpful. I’ll install it in case of future travels.