Danielle Jablanski

Like a plane, a train, a bus, a taxi.

Looking back, I was like 25 or whatever.

It was a really great program and it was relatively cheap to do.

So my company was covering it then, but it gained some popularity in this circle of people studying like nuclear policy.

Italy has really strict visa laws and requirements.

And so they wanted to do one for like Middle East and North Africa students that wanted to come, but they couldn't come to Italy.

So they actually did one in Cyprus.

So I went to Famagusta in Northern Cyprus.

And I don't know if people know, but Cyprus is basically like a split territory and the North is Turkish and the South is Greek.

So we were in the North, very Turkish influence, essentially like visiting, you know, a part of Turkey that's not connected to Turkey.

And this was like not a lavish trip, right?

famagusta has a lot of history it's really really cool they actually have like an abandoned hotel there and like a completely abandoned um like hospitality industry and so you can kind of tour these places but i have this like refreshed memory of actually having the most fresh mediterranean seafood dish sitting on the beach at a restaurant where it was like fresh caught that day and i know people talk about that for some reason the mediterranean there again not a lavish trip like there were cockroaches in our

We stayed at like a university, which, you know, I've been all over the place and I can take a can of hairspray to a cockroach, right?

No problem.

But I have this like beautiful memory that I sit back on and it's kind of like when you like see a beach scene open and there's like seagulls and I just have this like the most delicious fresh seafood I've ever had on the coast of Northern Cyprus, which is beautiful for so many different reasons.

cafe culture, right?

Because it's too hot during the day, you go out at night.

So even though it wasn't like a lavish trip for me, it was low spend at the time of my life.

I have a great memory of that and like the tablescapes in Northern Cyprus.

And it makes me really, really, really want to get to Turkey.