I’ve been in Brussels since Monday night. I have to admit that I found the city very… quiet (what city wouldn’t be quiet compared with Istanbul?) at first. I decided to stop reading my guidebook and, on a suggestion from Eva, I walked around the beautiful Abbaye de la Cambre, which houses an art school. […]
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I’m not a fearless traveler. I don’t bounce into a country, speak a new language badly but confidently, adventurously trek into backstreet restaurants and proceed to try the most ethnic dish on the menu. No, that’s not me. I can be timid. It can take me days to warm up, to feel comfortable in new
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You didn’t think I’d leave my post-it notes behind when I went on vacation, did you? I didn’t have any plans for them (they’re just a perennial staple in my purse), but they’ve come in really handy during my trip. I speak six words of Turkish, and my pronunciation is pretty horrible. I write my
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Blue Mosque ceiling The act of taking photos is so different when you’re an artist looking for inspiration, rather than a tourist hitting every required destination. Because my dad is a professional photographer, and my mom is a Filipina of a certain generation, childhood vacations became one, big photo opportunity. As kids, my brother and
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