If you're shocked that I found myself back in Istanbul this past weekend, please refer to this, this, this, and this. My love for Turkey knows no bounds, and I am lucky enough to have a friend who was gung-ho to visit it with me! She had never been, so I put on my tour guide hat and … Continue reading Istanbul Lite
If you ever want me to shut up immediately, stick a Turkish kahvalti in my immediate vicinity. Bonus points if you throw in menemen (stutter 'anemone' really fast and it sounds about the same), a tomato/egg/pepper/cheese/pan of delicious. Kahvalti is to Turkish people like Sunday brunch is to the basic bitches of the world. It's … Continue reading Breakfast of a thousand plates
I'm on yet another travel hiatus - twoish weeks until I move to London for graduate school. I spent this past summer working in Turkey, which I'll definitely post about soon, but for now I'm feeling nostalgic for a trip I took in 2015. The whole experience of Trabzon, Turkey cannot be contained in one … Continue reading City in the clouds
Technically, I don't consider myself afraid of heights. It's the process of getting there that gives me the heebie jeebies. When I travel around D.C. on our illustrious public transport, I can't look up or down the mile-high escalator lest I decide my step is an adequate place to sit. So you can imagine my … Continue reading Don’t look down
