Itchy Feet: the Travel and Language Comic

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Ubiquitous Shape, Pt. 2

Circular bready foods from around the world: Injera from East Africa, Roti Prata from Singapore, Arepa from Colombia and Venezuela, cong iu bing from Taiwan, Lahmacun from Turkey, Manakish from Lebanon Middle East, Pfannkuchen from Germany

And check out part one here for more planar, oblique doughy edibles.

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If a series of circles doesn't count as great comic art,
then I don't know what does.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Iberian Aid

Portuguese is just Spanish with a Russian accent

Yes it does, and here's why.

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Обригадо!

Sunday, September 4, 2016

Unusual Shape

The northern border between India and Bangladesh is completely crazy. Also called enclaves or chitmahals

Don't believe me? See for yourself.

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Diminishing Frequency

At the beginning of your trip, you take a ton of photos. As the trip goes on, however, you take less and less...even if you see interesting things

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Unreal Words

In English we use words that aren't words, like mmm-hmm and a'ight. But they also do in other languages

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A'ight yo, coo'.

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Upgrade Required

Learning languages you need to learn a lot of words in your OWN language that you don't know

Sunday, August 7, 2016

Daylightland

In Iceland in the summer, the sun never sets. It's like an alternate twilight dimension. But winter is worse

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Now accepting Icelandic patrons.