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I stayed in this Istanbul apartment last October—and I loved it so much, I "stole" something to take home with me. Can you guess w...

Hoo boy, I've been busy busy busy these past two weeks! I had so much about Istanbul that I wanted to blog about, but I figured if I had...

Every city has an iconic avenue, a vital artery through which the lifeblood of the city flows. Paris has its Champs Elysees, Barcelona its L...

Upon our arrival in Istanbul, Marlon and I were both delighted and relieved to find not only  a lovely apartment in a fantastic location , b...

My past experience of Turkish food in the past can be summed up in three words: fast, greasy and cheap. In Cappadocia, I became reacquainted...

On our last day in Cappadocia, Marlon and I signed up for a day tour through our hotel. The tours are pretty standard (with a standard color...

I just found a collage that I made at the beginning of spring , when I first started getting back into my creative groove. I was done with i...

As a leisure activity, hiking has never appealed to me. For one thing, as I've said before, I'm not the biggest fan of walking. Also...

After catching up on sleep post-balloon flight, Marlon and I took a ten-minute walk out of Goreme town proper to see the Goreme Open-Air Mus...

Walking around the town of Goreme, I noticed that the Flintstones were a pretty common reference. There were Flintstones cafes, Flintstones ...

I knew Marlon and I were going to arrive in Goreme past midnight. I also knew that we would have to be picked up at the hotel before dawn. S...

It's way past time I started blogging about my trip to Turkey. Yesterday I started drafting a post about the very first thing I did on m...

My wonderful husband has once again proved that he knows me so well. How? By getting me a birthday gift that I absolutely love. Want to kno...

The past few weeks have given me soooo much to blog about, such as: My first choir audition since the age of 17 The start of autumn Four ...