The Traveler's Lunchbox is written and photographed by Melissa Kronenthal. I'm 30, and I live in Edinburgh, Scotland with my husband Manuel. Neither of us is from Scotland - I am American and he is German. I've lived here for six years, during which time I've been working towards my doctorate in linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, and trying not to cook myself into financial ruin. Currently I'm paying the bills by working at the University while writing up my thesis on the side (edit: thesis now submitted defended and passed!), while Manuel has embarked on a new career in photography.
Between the two of us we have also lived in Spain, Ireland and Bulgaria in addition to our home countries, and we have traveled far and wide across Europe, Australasia and the Americas in search of a really good meal.
We both love food and will go to great lengths to find it - unfortunately that can sometimes be a challenge in Scotland! But as I prefer to see it, it's good practice... since if we can find good food here, we can probably find it anywhere.
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Proof that I was blogging long before it was fashionable!