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RE: This challenge just got a whole lot harder...
YOUR POST IS AMAZING! I am in the challenge with you and your struggles inspire me. I am not traveling, but will be in August and want to continue to have a whole food plant based diet. Any tips for me, I will in london and france.
france is definitely a hard one - although england has its struggles too. i think it depends on the size of the place you are in. cities are definitely easier and you wont have much of a problem, although you will have to do some googling because sometimes you wont be able to explain what you want to a server who doesnt speak english.
for france i definitely recommend using a translator (google works great!) before going out and writing down an ensemble of phrases and words, that way you can show them to the servers before ordering (things like "im a vegetarian/vegan", "please no eggs/meat/etc", "is there meat in this sauce?" etc). it will help immensely!!
in england cities you will be fine - again do some research first on good vegan/vegetarian places first, and just avoid the typical english pub and restaurant places (they are heavy dishes always usually based around a meat dish: sausage and mash(ed potatoes), sunday roast (roast chicken with mashed potatoes and veggies and meat gravy), etc - you get the point ;p
a lot of the reasons why ive only been stuck with french fries! -.-