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Turkey
5 min to read
Breakfast in Fethiye and a five-and-a-half-hour bus ride, the night I chose the wrong place in Izmir
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Turkey6 min to read
From Antalya to Fethiye: What I realized on the day my expectations fell apart
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Turkey6 min to read
Antalya became my favorite in Turkey
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Turkey6 min to read
Flying to Antalya. My Russian opened the door to the journey.
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Turkey5 min to read
The feeling of "blending in" in Turkey — A day at Atatürk's Mausoleum
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Turkey5 min to read
With my first foreign friend, after seven years - Ankara#1
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Turkey5 min to read
It was too quiet. The day I encountered the real Turkey in Eskişehir
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Georgia7 min to read
The world's warmest guesthouse I encountered in Stalin's hometown
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Georgia5 min to read
Cheese and wine by the fireplace — the best night in Kakheti, Telavi
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Georgia5 min to read
Success on the second hitchhike— to a Soviet-era winery
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Georgia4 min to read
The 23-km city wall and the sweet Saperavi wine — Kakheti Day 1
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Azerbaijan3 min to read
Tourist spots remain unchanged, but people change — final day with Zeyneb
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Azerbaijan2 min to read
A stillness like Howl's Moving Castle — to the world's oldest Albanian church in Kish
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Azerbaijan2 min to read
Autumn leaves, Russian, and three cats — Sheki, a mountain town in Azerbaijan
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Azerbaijan6 min to read
To Baku on a 3 a.m. flight — entering Azerbaijan
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Uzbekistan5 min to read
She returned to Russia, I to Azerbaijan — on the sleeper train to Urgench
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Uzbekistan7 min to read
I want to go back to Besh Qozon — no matter where I eat, nothing beats that taste.
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Uzbekistan3 min to read
The sun is alive — the center of Bukhara, like a world from Dragon Quest
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Uzbekistan10 min to read
Carrying two kilos of non, passersby smile — Samarkand, day two
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Uzbekistan6 min to read
Popcorn a hundred times tastier than movie-theater popcorn was the privilege of the dry climate.
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Uzbekistan9 min to read
300 grams of strawberries for 900 yen. Afterwards, an evening of Smetana debates with Sonya
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Uzbekistan7 min to read
Eating the world's most delicious plov in a city where PM2.5 tops 300 — First day in Tashkent
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Uzbekistan8 min to read
Arrived in Uzbekistan — 100GB for ¥1,400, VPN blocked
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Vietnam4 min to read
I was sleeping on the floor when a cockroach showed up — completed the Khao Ban loop
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Vietnam8 min to read
Lost in a village with no signal. I trusted myself — a day in Cao Bang, northern Vietnam
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Vietnam5 min to read
There's a temple inside a cave — Last day in Lang Son, saying goodbye to Toan
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Vietnam6 min to read
Shouting on a mountain in Vietnam. In Japan I'm a 'weirdo', here I'm 'human'.
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Vietnam2 min to read
The night I mixed up the date and stumbled upon the best dinner
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Vietnam6 min to read
Sampling a sauce that smells like a drain. A nighttime date at Hoan Kiem Lake.
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Vietnam4 min to read
Those Who Treat and Those Who Are Treated — Commonalities I Learned in Hanoi
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Vietnam6 min to read
From Chubu Centrair Airport to Hanoi — The Day the Round-the-World Journey Begins Anew
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Indonesia8 min to read
The day of a third consecutive reunion, and of making a friend in the seat beside me on the plane
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Indonesia14 min to read
Depart at 10:00 PM, start the climb at 2:00 AM, blue flames spouting from the mountain. Then a ferry to Bali.
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Indonesia6 min to read
値段ではなく"価値"——ジョグジャカルタで学んだ、お金と人間関係の本質
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Indonesia11 min to read
期待と裏切りと出会い——ボロブドゥールで過ごした、人生で一番濃い1日
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Indonesia5 min to read
Hospitality over taste, character over price — the values I discovered in Yogyakarta
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Indonesia18 min to read
It's the encounters that seem superficial at first glance that are the most interesting. Observations from day two of Parow Serib
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Indonesia17 min to read
Me and 30 Indonesians. On the 3,000-yen island tour, my backpack was my pillow and a raincoat was my blanket.
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Brunei6 min to read
不安の先には、待ってもいなかったことがある—ブルネイで出会った70歳の冒険家
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Thailand6 min to read
To Chiang Rai with friends I met at the hostel, to see the Long-Neck tribe!
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Thailand3 min to read
We are drawn to what is unfinished. That, it seems, is what it means to be human.
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Vietnam7 min to read
Nha Trang — Day 2 — the brick ruins and the "local flavors" my Vietnamese friend introduced me to
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Vietnam6 min to read
The moment I heard Japanese, I found myself withdrawing into my shell.
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Vietnam15 min to read
On a three-hour date, we only talked for 50 minutes. I can't forget the 'silent date' with my ISFP girlfriend.
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Vietnam5 min to read
Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum and the Night Market, a City Where Memories Overlap | Around the World
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Vietnam4 min to read
The Japanese food I ate in Quy Nhon was life-changingly delicious | Around the World
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Vietnam3 min to read
Visited Ho Chi Minh's War Remnants Museum. The pain and respect I felt there.
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Vietnam4 min to read
From the Philippines to Vietnam: a journey of the heart that crosses the skies.
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Philippines4 min to read
Sightseeing in Iroiro City! Heading to Moro Mansion! Relaxing with delivery at night
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Philippines6 min to read
Today is my 'Iroiro' day: a slightly special day spent in the Philippines
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Czech Republic2 min to read
Prague National Museum, a golden space
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Czech Republic2 min to read
The Great Musician's Chair I Touched in Prague
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Czech Republic4 min to read
The moment foreign languages became music in a cobbled city. A winter stroll in Prague
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France7 min to read
Friendship that blossomed even during COVID, the last supper in France
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France6 min to read
On January 1, I ended up catching COVID in France.
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France7 min to read
Caught a fever on New Year's Day in France.
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France10 min to read
My first New Year's in France! Eating foie gras and escargot!
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France9 min to read
Not Paris. This is the real France. A day blending into a French family.
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France9 min to read
Genovese made by a French mother, and my first-ever gastronomic
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Georgia2 min to read
Tbilisi MOMA and the Christmas illuminations seen from a taxi
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Georgia2 min to read
"You are so beautiful." On a night of Christmas lights in Tbilisi
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