#hotels
Istanbul
Checking In, Checking Back: Ten Years, Twelve Istanbul Hotels - Part One
Aug 15, 2026 • 27 min read
Four Istanbul hotels: a spectacular suite, an efficient stopover, exceptional hospitality and a cocktail that became a minor engineering project.Choosing between Istanbul hotels can easily become part of the journey itself. Stay in Etiler and the city feels modern, vertical and distant from the postcard version most visitors come to see. Move to th
Poznan
A 300-Year-Old Aria Sent Me to Poznań
Jul 21, 2026 • 14 min read
How Vivaldi, an extraordinary countertenor and a convenient flight became the beginning of my first proper journey through Poland Three hundred years before Instagram, Antonio Vivaldi wrote an aria about longing and the quiet certainty of seeing someone beloved again. “Vedrò con mio diletto” belongs to Giustino, an opera first performed in Rome i