Saveur Blog Awards Finalist
2017 and 2018
in Best Travel Blog category
I write stories about food, travel, and things that matter like sustainability and my mild obsession with Hollywood actors. Home is Russia, but I currently live in Germany and eat rye bread with butter every day.
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If I could give you only one advice about traveling in Istanbul, it would be to skip hotel breakfast. Yea, get that Istanbul card for public transport, yea, watch your belongings in crowded spaces, blah-blah-blah… But above all that, get…
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This itinerary for 3 days in Istanbul is based on my experience of visiting the city 4 times over the past 5 years. Do I sound authoritative? Ok, good. Now let me be completely honest. I am not sure if…
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They say, if you are eating badly in Italy, you are probably in Venice. Yikes! Venice was supposed to be my introduction to Italy, and I was not about to let a few touristy restaurants with overcooked pasta spoil my…
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So I hear Milan isn’t a favorite among people visiting Italy. The city is too large, and too commercial, and too gloomy, and too noisy, and not at all like the rest of Italy, and… and… and… How come I…
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It took me three years to write the most obvious post on this blog — about the best restaurants in Colombo. Not that I have been writing it for three years. But it occurred to me only now, three years…
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Breakfast the Italian way requires some mental preparation for a person who’s used to having omelettes, avocado toast, and pancakes in the morning. Before my first trip to Italy I was terrified: how can a person sustain on a single…
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You’ve probably heard a million times that Italian food is highly regional. What you should order in Rome is not the same as in Milan. And what is considered a must-try in Naples might be a poor choice in Venice….
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Italy, Italy, Italy, Italy, Itaaaaaaaalyyyyyy! These were my emotions upon stepping foot in Venice, the first Italian city I visited in my life. That was literally it. No words, just a huge smile on my face and a feeling of…
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On July 4th, season 3 of Stranger Things hit Netflix and immediately smashed its ratings records with over 40 million households streaming the show. If we assume there are two people in every household (which I guess is way below…
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Mondays were for grocery shopping. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays — for baking cakes and making jam, Thursdays and Saturdays for selling the said cakes and jam at the farmers’ market, Sundays… did Sundays even happen? My only day off a…
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