CITY PORTRAITS
Cities are places of human energy and ingenuity. Places that a traveler visits and the same one returns to in thoughts. City Portraits is my curated archive of urban stories and cultural travel essays offering intimate glimpses of unseen textures of urban life. Tag along as I attempt to capture the spirit of a place, one urban jungle after another.
THE NORTHERN ALLURE
Hamburg – part grit and part chic, why this German city of the north keeps on surprising.
MY VIENNESE RITUAL
In travel, there is foreignness and familiarity. It’s like flipping a coin, you get one or the other. The most fascinating part? The sense of wonder and surprise.
In LYON, feeding the SOUL not with food but with SIGHTS
Lyon is a fitting escape for pilgrims in search of culinary delights as well as feeding the hungry soul with the city’s cinematic sights.
ISTANBUL: OLD IS THE NEW SPIRIT
There is nowhere in the world quite like Istanbul – spread across two continents, a city exuding with culture and contrast and always on the move.