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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In the past 14 years that I spent living in and/or traveling around the island I stayed in a great many hotels. From a tree house with no walls to the home of the talented Geoffrey Bawa to a rubber-plantation-turned-boutique-hotel….
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We have this ongoing argument with my husband where he says something like “What got you here won’t get you there” — not meaning me in particular, but rather generally speaking — or “We need to go that extra mile”…
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The Universe likes me, I am pretty sure of it, but it’s nice to get a confirmation once in a while. And in June I did. Twice. Now, I know for most people going to a concert, while exciting, is…
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Between the two of us L. and I have four kids under the age of four. Which is why our latest meeting had to be over breakfast at 8 am: when you take everyone’s nap time into consideration there aren’t…
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