Nine Mediterranean Standouts
December 17th 2011 22:30
It has come to the point of no return. My overseas budget is officially kaput. With a bit of introspection and reflection, I've narrowed it down to a handful of exceptionally defining moments that I'll carry through life as being well worth the experience.
1; The six Euro bottles of white port from Porto. Undeniably the best way to get sloshed on a backpack budget.
2; The eight Euro bottles of Limoncello from Positano. Missed the number one spot upon realisation that the quality of the liquor and definition of landscape can replace the need for someone to share it with.
3; Kapadokia. Because its maintained the biblical aesthetic better than the bible.
4; Sarajevo's old town. For making it easy to open your eyes and find the inspiration that writers and other creative types are sometimes forced to seek. The proximity to oblivion coupled with unfaltering resilience makes one realise Post Traumatic Stress may not be within Bosnia's scope of mental health complexities.
Keep calm and carry on? Don't mock them.
5; Venezia. That place where you are forced to walk everywhere, and lucky for us aesthetic perfectionists that every 50 metres is a real life oil on canvas from 700 years ago.
6; Tangier Kasbah. Because its legendary and will make you feel the same way.
7; The gardens of Alhambra. Consider it a combination of the aesthetic perfection and legendary status mentioned in the previous two points.
8. The coast of Capri. With the ever looming presence of doom for which it had been used for by previous kingdoms, it has somehow maintained an atmosphere of paradisical proportions. Shall we call it the grotto effect.
9. Konya, Turkey. Because the people are the extreme opposite of everything we watch from HBO.
.... aaaaaannnnnd back to reality. The internet cafe I'm at has Christmas carols playing through the loudspeaker. The itchy feet syndrome lives on.
1; The six Euro bottles of white port from Porto. Undeniably the best way to get sloshed on a backpack budget.
2; The eight Euro bottles of Limoncello from Positano. Missed the number one spot upon realisation that the quality of the liquor and definition of landscape can replace the need for someone to share it with.
3; Kapadokia. Because its maintained the biblical aesthetic better than the bible.
4; Sarajevo's old town. For making it easy to open your eyes and find the inspiration that writers and other creative types are sometimes forced to seek. The proximity to oblivion coupled with unfaltering resilience makes one realise Post Traumatic Stress may not be within Bosnia's scope of mental health complexities.
Keep calm and carry on? Don't mock them.
5; Venezia. That place where you are forced to walk everywhere, and lucky for us aesthetic perfectionists that every 50 metres is a real life oil on canvas from 700 years ago.
6; Tangier Kasbah. Because its legendary and will make you feel the same way.
7; The gardens of Alhambra. Consider it a combination of the aesthetic perfection and legendary status mentioned in the previous two points.
8. The coast of Capri. With the ever looming presence of doom for which it had been used for by previous kingdoms, it has somehow maintained an atmosphere of paradisical proportions. Shall we call it the grotto effect.
9. Konya, Turkey. Because the people are the extreme opposite of everything we watch from HBO.
.... aaaaaannnnnd back to reality. The internet cafe I'm at has Christmas carols playing through the loudspeaker. The itchy feet syndrome lives on.
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