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ivan-drazic
@ivan-drazic Sep 9, 2026, 10:57 PM UTC

Catania on Foot: A Personal Guide to the Black Baroque City

Exploring Catania on foot through its palaces, churches and fish market, with Bellini along the way, pasta alla Norma at dinner and rather too many reasons to miss my train.When Venus and Mars make l…

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@ivan-drazic Sep 6, 2026, 11:29 AM UTC

The Trip to Bulgaria I Found on an Old Camera

Lost photographs from a 2007 trip to Bulgaria bring back Plovdiv, Bachkovo, a global conference and a suitcase misrouted to Tirana.In 2026, while looking for photographs for a completely different bl…

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ivan-drazic
@ivan-drazic Sep 5, 2026, 6:15 PM UTC

Amsterdam 20 Years Later — It Wasn’t Quite Where I Left It

Amsterdam 20 Years Later: Same Tracks, Tired Windows, Stronger Weed — and the Suspicion That the Party Moved to BerlinIn 2004, Amsterdam ended for me with a daytime train to Cologne. Twenty years lat…

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ivan-drazic
@ivan-drazic Sep 1, 2026, 4:08 PM UTC

In Search of My Best Prague Photograph

Fifteen stops, one phone, years of Prague experience — let the hunt for the best Prague photograph begin.I have been to Prague enough times for another round of classic sightseeing to make very littl…

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@ivan-drazic Aug 30, 2026, 7:55 AM UTC

I Picked the Wrong Day for Karlovy Vary

Foul-tasting hot water with laxative ambitions, rapidly declining sightseeing standards and two detours from Karlovy Vary — on the day Czechia set its all-time temperature record.By the time I finall…

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@ivan-drazic Aug 22, 2026, 5:43 AM UTC

The Morocco I Entered Through Meknes

I was staying in Fes, but Meknes gave me my first medina — and the first lesson that Morocco is rarely as simple as the guidebook version.My first serious day of sightseeing in Morocco did not begin…

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@ivan-drazic Aug 19, 2026, 9:19 AM UTC

Twenty Minutes in Moulay Idriss - Morocco’s Holy Town

My driver gave me twenty minutes for Moulay Idriss. Just enough time to enter the medina, trust a boy I had never seen before, climb almost above the town - and somehow see far more than twenty minut…

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@ivan-drazic Aug 18, 2026, 6:09 AM UTC

First Time in China: What Europe Hadn’t Prepared Me For

Before my first time in China, I worried about cultural differences. Instead, I found QR-code payments, a stubborn firewall, barely any English, robots using lifts — and a system that somehow became…

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@ivan-drazic Aug 15, 2026, 2:20 PM UTC

Checking In, Checking Back: Ten Years, Twelve Istanbul Hotels - Part One

Four Istanbul hotels: a spectacular suite, an efficient stopover, exceptional hospitality and a cocktail that became a minor engineering project.Choosing between Istanbul hotels can easily become par…

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@ivan-drazic Aug 13, 2026, 8:33 PM UTC

I Drove to Pamukkale at 3 A.M. — and the Best Part Was the Fruit

I came to Turkey for a business meeting in Ankara. A few days of annual leave turned the journey into a solo detour through İzmir and Pamukkale, one reluctantly abandoned plan for Ephesus, an excepti…

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