Tag: travel

December 26, 2025

Steps Away from Beethoven: Vienna, 2023

A nostalgic return to Vienna, the imperial city of unseen, enduring bonds, spun from music and family long before I ever arrived.

December 24, 2025

What The Moon Saw: Copenhagen, 2023

A collection of travel moments framed through Andersen's timeless, luminous tales.

June 12, 2025

Hamburg 2023

From Northeim and Göttingen, I came full sail into the Hanseatic port city and made a beeline for the Speicherstadt. No Deutsche Bahn mishaps this time!

May 18, 2025

Northeim 2023

A trip that had begun so well with a sublime truffle tortellini at 35,000 feet was rapidly dissolving into a properly Grimm misadventure.

February 12, 2025

Cappadocia 2022: The Stone Fairies of Göreme

The rain lends an otherworldly mien to the thick pillars and sharp mushroom-shaped rock caps, and I decide that whoever named these fairy chimneys was thinking of Scheherazade's Paribanou.

January 23, 2025

The Case of The Bookworm and The Travel Bug: Istanbul 2022

The Mysterious Mannequin was the first Nancy Drew story my mother had given me. It had a bright yellow spine, a cover intriguing enough for the exotic tale of Istanbul it spun, a disappearance in the Grand Bazaar and a confrontation in the Basilica Cistern, messages concealed in a carpet, and throwaway descriptions of baklava and moussaka within.

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