istanbul diaries | first time in turkey, (vegan) food, roaming in the city of cats

journal #002
hoi! We visited Istanbul in March 2024, also our first time ever in Turkey! Let's explore the city together, encounter numerous cats, and enjoy Turkish delicacies. Most of the restaurants and cafes in the vlog are vegetarian (if not vegan) friendly, I only show the ones I would recommend!
Thanks for being here :)
love, hey.
note:
“hüzün, which denotes a melancholy that is communal rather than private. Offering no clarity, veiling reality instead, hüzün brings us comfort, softening the view like the condensation on a window when a teakettle has been spouting steam on a winter’s day. Steamed-up windows make me feel hüzün, and I still love getting up and walking over to those windows to trace words on them with my finger. As I shape words and figures on the steamy window, the hüzün inside me dissipates and I can relax; after I have done all my writing and drawing, I can erase it all with the back of my hand and look outside. But the view itself can bring its own hüzün. It is time to come to a better understanding of this feeling that the city of Istanbul carries as its fate.”
― Orhan Pamuk
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equipment:
iPhone 13 Pro
music:
Blue Sirens - Taro - thmatc.co/?l=F...
WABI SABI - watch the waves - thmatc.co/?l=3...
Alex & The Moondaze - Medicine - thmatc.co/?l=1...
Grisp - Park event - thmatc.co/?l=E...
about me:
I'm hey (or Hsinju), Taiwanese-Dutch based in the Netherlands. A multipotentialite who currently focuses on ceramic and web dev.
you can check me out on Instagram at:
@heyroam.studio (ceramic & craft studio)
@letthemroam.nl