After five years of counting down and a solid year of planning and preparations, our Caveney Clan Christmas holiday gathering arrived in late December. This holiday gathering, coined a reunion by the cousin contingent, and rightfully so, was made more meaningful as it was preceded by nearly two years of COVID impacts. We have valued getting together once-every-five-years since 2001 when my father initiated this wonderful plan, now tradition. We pilgrimaged to MI again in…
I said I would tell you more about my trip to Germany, as well as how I know Harika, the friend whom I visited in my brief time there. So here I am to do just that. The first week after I arrived to İzmir in August of 2018, I spent a lot of time walking the streets around my apartment and in my neighborhood to begin to get a feel for this new country…
Having wrapped up my five week summer vacation in Dalyan, I confess I’m already thinking ahead to next summer, and I want to do something similar. While most İzmirians “summer” in Çeşme, that is not my scene. It is basically the big city moved to the beach. While I appreciate living and working in İzmir, I prefer a slower paced way-of-life for my summer break. I may, however, be adopting the Turkish lifestyle of summering…