Tag: Turkey
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One day in Ankara, Turkey
From Istanbul, my friends put me on one of the cushy buses that goes across the country so I could see Erzem, a friend I had met while working in Spain. Erzem’s family is from a small town near the border with Bulgaria, but she had been living in the country’s capital for the past…
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One week in Istanbul, Turkey
A friend once described Istanbul as a “storied city,” and that phrase stuck with me. Istanbul is a city of diverging stories that defies classification. It’s impossible to cover everything within the space of two or three days, and although I spent about a week there, I barely scratched the surface. I was lucky enough…
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Solo Travel in Cappadocia, Turkey
If you have been a millennial engaged in any sort of travel in the past five years, you’re going to have seen the balloon pics from Cappadocia. It is inevitable, the only objects that have been more instagrammed are those white and blue buildings in Santorini. I like to avoid hype when traveling. For this…