Hello!

Well hi everyone! My name is Dino (pronounced Dean-oh) and this is my very first blog. :) So as the title of this posts suggest I thought I'd make a little post to just tell you all about who I am and what I do. I am originally from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, but have lived in Bristol, England for 11 years. I speak Serbocroatian as my first language, and I am currently also learning Mandarin Chinese.

As the title of this blog suggests, I absolutely love food and I cook at home regularly-both my native Bosnian and Herzegovinian food but also authentic Chinese food, for which I have really fallen for. I also adore travelling, and I have trips to China, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina planned this year. So far though, my favourite destination has to be Thailand. Nature is also a big part of my life, and I cultivate Orchids and Carnivorous Plants in a 12 by 8 foot greenhouse in my back garden and I own over 400 plants in total. I have been cultivating both for some 7 years now, and I am training to become a qualified Orchid judge, a process which takes 4 years to complete. My last passion is History and Politics, both of which I will be studying at University from this coming autumn.

So this blog will probably end up being a mixture of all these things and possibly me, I'll see how it goes. :) Thanks for checking out this blog and I hope you enjoy reading it!