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A Summer without Plans
Every year I used to have to-do lists for my summers. Sometimes even two, like in 2015 [here and here]. Two years ago I had planned a six week vacation in Turkey and there a trip through the southeast, although that was cut a little short due to the alleged military coup. And last summer […]
Week in review: 16 – 22 July 2018
I am sitting at my kitchen table listening to the rain slowly and evenly coming down outside. Canavar is taking a long cat nap on the bed. It is one of those great quiet summer Sundays when I don’t even have to leave the house. I have been home since Wednesday and finally get to […]
Week in review: 9 – 15 July 2018
I have spent most of this week in Germany. On early Monday evening I said goodbye to Canavar and headed to the airport. For the first time ever it took me only 15 minutes between arriving at the airport, checking in my luggage, and going through security. I had so much time that I ate […]
Week in review: 2 – 8 July 2018
Just like that my first week of summer vacation is over. It started with me unpacking lots of boxes after I had moved into my new studio here in Cambridge last weekend. After the professional moving company had failed both to turn up and to cancel. Thank god for amazing friends who helped me on […]
5 Beautiful Things on this Saturday
1. It is a beautiful, sunny Saturday morning; after the weeklong heat wave temperatures have finally fallen and are now tolerable; and I am sitting in my boyfriend’s new apartment in Murray Hill, in the middle of Manhattan. I have spent most of this week here and have fallen very much in love with the […]
Jana, German blogger: Living in Boston since July 2015. In love with tomcat Canavar since 2011. Lived in Istanbul from 2010 to 2015.
"Life contains more adventures than dreams can ever hold."
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