Europe – Flung

Turks, Punks, and Hipsters in Berlin’s Neukölln District

Erum Naqvi — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 16:55:44 +0000

It’s my first night in Neukölln and I’m itching for a Turkish pizza. Comprised of flatbread spread with a thin layer of curried meat and served alongside salad, mint and cucumber yogurt, plus herbs, lemons and pickles, all for you to pile on the pizza as you please before rolling it up and stuffing it in your mouth–it’s fresh and satisfying at the same time. As a Persian, anything served with minty yogurt makes me want to sing. We call […]

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Downtown Camper: The Hotel Stockholm Has Been Missing

Wailana Kalama — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:28:20 +0000

When you walk into the entrance of the six-month-old Downtown Camper Hotel in Stockholm, the first things you notice are the pillars of wood, the reception desk made of polished timber, and an abundance of ferns. Then, in one corner, you find ceiling-to-floor corkboards pinned with maps of Stockholm. Nearby, moss runs down one side of a freestanding column like a drip. A line of skateboards sit perched against the wall by reception. On another wall, the words “Downtown Camper” […]

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We Need To Travel Better

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:33:23 +0000

Two Sundays ago, as Donald Trump’s advisers were convincing him to read a prepared statement condemning an act of Nazi terrorism that he would override a day later with history’s least dignified press conference, my boyfriend and I hosted a barbecue at which one guest was from Barcelona. We talked first about the charms of Barcelona, then about how overrun it’s become with tourists in recent years. While it was the stomping ground of his youth, these days he and his […]

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Ancient Greek Theater in the Peloponnese

Erum Naqvi — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 13:59:31 +0000

Az ókori görög színház és az online szerencsejátékok izgalmas világa egyaránt képes elrepíteni Önt egy másik időbe, helyre és élménybe. A peloponnészoszi ókori görög színház építészeti csoda volt és tisztelt kulturális intézmény, ahol a múlt visszhangja még ma is érezhető. A görög színházban tartott előadások nagyszabású látványosságok voltak, akárcsak az a lélegzetelállító élmény, amelyet a Wanted Dead Or A Wild online nyerőgép tárcsáinak pörgetésekor átélhet. Ez a nyerőgép egy felejthetetlen nyugati kalandra viszi el a játékosokat, a görög színházi tragédiák […]

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Kafka’s Vacation Time

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 23 May 2017 13:03:11 +0000

Though he’s one of very few authors in history to have his name turned into an adjective, Franz Kafka was a disaster of a writer, insofar as we would consider a writer who is not a disaster to do things like get a decent night’s sleep on occasion, write every day (or at least every week), and send completed writings out into the world for publication. Kafka did none of these things, and more often than not, actively tried to […]

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Katie Kitamura’s ‘A Separation’: An Impending Divorce Undone

Sarah Stodola — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 01:51:31 +0000

Until it isn’t, Katie Kitamura’s new novel, A Separation, is among the most perfect representations I’ve read in fiction of the ennui that engulfs any thinking person as she sinks, and then sinks further, into a luxury beachfront vacation. The view of the sea from the room’s balcony, the overly affectionate couple at the next table over, the “very nice pool.” None of it giving the observer any indication of which country she happens to be in. The observer in […]

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The Rookery Hotel: Breaking the Mold by Embracing the Old

Sarah Stodola — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 14:57:48 +0000

In this current era of travel, when the hippest hotels in every city around the world look identical to their counterparts in every other city around the world, I’ve become well-versed in their signifiers, defined collectively by what can only be called an extravagant minimalism. They deal in former manufacturing spaces, or the appearance of them, gussying them up only here and there with statement pieces like chandeliers and velvet sofas, long communal work tables and art that’s winking at […]

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A History of Hennessy, from Ireland To France To America

Sarah Stodola — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 16:57:06 +0000

At the tail end of a vacation in France a few years ago, my boyfriend and I had a couple days in our rental car to get back to Paris from Bordeaux, where we’d been enjoying the countryside and the ocean and the wine and the perfectly ripe avocados. We had no plan, just a general direction we needed to pursue, waiting along the way for something to pique our interest enough to stop. I remember whirring past windmills and […]

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New York’s JFK –> London Heathrow on British Airways Flight 172

Sarah Stodola — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:39:55 +0000

In Flight Reviews, Flung writers provide key information about flights they take in order to leave the flying public better informed in an age of frustration, obfuscation and increasingly unfriendly skies. JFK –> LHR on BA172 Flight: British Airways Flight 172 Date and Time of Flight: Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 8:50pm Terminal: JFK’s Terminal 7 leaves a bit to be desired. The bathrooms were old, with broken hooks on the stall doors and motion sensors on the hand dryers that only […]

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Exploring Croatia’s Wine Country with Fresh Eire Adventures’ Padraic Doorey

Sarah Stodola — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 19:58:28 +0000

Last September, I joined tour guide extraordinaire Padraic Doorey on a “bike and sail” trip he was leading through the Croatian Adriatic for his company, Fresh Eire Adventures. We lived for the week on a beautiful wooden sailboat, and spent our days exploring the land largely via bike. It was during this time, hopping from impossibly gorgeous island to impossibly gorgeous island, that I got a close-up view of the gruffly charming, arcadian wineries that dot both the islands and […]

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