Going Gluten Free Abroad

When I visited Ibiza in July I can safely say there where a lot less food places tried than the rest of the holidays I have been on it was much more of a liquid based diet consumed over these 7 days. A saving grace was at least the burger king had   gluten free options always useful as a hangover cure or a post club scran, the UK really needs to include the gluten free options on their menus. We went for a full English breakfast everyday maybe at like 4 o’clock when we could be bothered to venture out of the hotel not sure if it still counts as breakfast. The breakfast was outstanding and there was a gluten free breakfast being made with gluten free toast and sausages, full English breakfast was what the doctor ordered to sort me out each day. Sometimes I would opt for a grilled chicken and chips very plain but you can't go wrong and it was always very nice.   Over the 7 days we were in Ibiza I can only really think of two places were we had a proper dinner. One place we ...

I visited Rhodes in Greece at the end of June this year, I would say this was one of the most challenging places I have visited so far. We stayed In the Madison boutique hotel where breakfast was included in the stay. I emailed prior to the visit too ensure they would be able to have breakfast options I could eat and they were very helpful ensuring they would cater for me. It was a family run hotel and they were very helpful and ensured they bought breakfast options such as rolls and cereals and they often made me homemade brownies which were they best brownies I have ever had .  I was walking into restaurants and asking do you have anything gluten free where some actually told me that in Greece they don’t believe in “things like that" so it was extremely difficult to find somewhere sometimes. There was only really one restaurant in Faliraki that offered a gluten free menu, it was called eat Greek. The restaurant was really good as you could get a range of ...

Barcelona has been my favourite city to eat in so far. Almost everywhere catered for gluten free, which was a great surprise. They even had gluten free McDonald’s which was possibly one of my favourite meals as I’ve not been able to have one in years.     The gluten free options here were amazing, this is how it should be in the UK as well coeliacs need to eat too!   One of my highlights here was definitely a gluten free crepe that I had, it was so good I was questioning if it actually was gluten free, as soon as somethings not dry and crumbly I’m worried but it was completely safe. One of the things I miss most since becoming celiac is desserts I’ve always had a sweet tooth and it is so rare to find cakes, biscuits, crepes ect. There we’re gluten free bakeries in Barcelona that were unlike something I have never seen, they alone make the trip worthwhile, even my friend (a non-celiac) said it was one of the best cookies she has ever had which says a lot. I was planning on...

 I recently visited Albufeira in Portugal, as in most places it can be very challenging at times to find somewhere suitable to eat, unless you are a big fan of salad, which I am definitely not. We were staying right at the marina which had fewer restaurant choices than in Albufeira town, we often got a 5-minute taxi into Albufeira town or the old town which had much more options available.  Finding on the go, quick bite to eat options was a problem which normally seems to be the case even in the UK. The easiest meal to find to eat was definitely dinner, I had read some reviews online and we tried a place called senior frogs which offered a gluten free menu of pasta and pizza. We visited the restaurant a few times as the pizza was the best gluten free pizza I have ever tasted. Restaurant Bailote in Albufeira also offered a large gluten free menu, they had gluten free bread which came as a nice surprise even though bread would be considered a basic at a restaurant for most peopl...

 Introduction to my Blog Welcome to my first blog post. My name is Niamh Bissette and I am currently a third year student at the university of strathclyde. I have been been given the task to create a blog as part of my marketing module. In Lockdown of 2021 I was diagnosed with celiac disease which is an auto immune disease where your immune system attacks your own tissues when you eat gluten. This obviously meant that I couldn't eat gluten anymore. Avoiding gluten is difficult enough in the UK so I thought I would share with you recommendations for eating abroad and also any challenges that come with it.