submitted 3 weeks ago by Sas@beehaw.org to c/vegan@slrpnk.net

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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?

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[-] Sas@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah i guess the first point is really important and we're too quick to forget that.

Technically i had phone service but i had to be very careful with it as we were close to the Swiss border and they charge a lot of roaming costs (colleague lost 50€ thanks to that despite trying to stay on top of turning off roaming in those risks areas) but yeah i could've really done a better job at using translation services

I had a power bank with me because we were camping in tents without power so i had that covered.

The 4th point is a tricky one for me. I struggle a lot with social interactions and if i already sat down at a place only to find out they didn't have vegan stuff it'd make my anxiousness rise to get up and leave especially considering it'd also split the group most likely.

I had some backup snacks to keep me afloat but those wouldn't help me come down from the bad hike.

Point 6 is really important i guess and I'll try.

Thanks for the advice

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