Where we Lived In August 2022, we gratefully put down roots and unpacked our clothes for a month in a third story seaview apartment on the outskirts of Istanbul in a community called Dariča. The "c" is pronounced as a "j" by the way. Since we had already experienced staying in the city, we splurged on amenities and comfort over…

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After spending weeks in the Bulgarian countryside, arriving to Istanbul was an assault on all our senses...in the best way possible. The smells, the tastes, the sounds, the sights, even the lingering heat of the air and the sea breeze, the unbelievably inexpensive prices...all simply divine. We hadn’t been to a city of this size (14.5 million, biggest in Europe)…

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