I miss opening my window in the morning and breathing in marine scented ocean air. That seaweed smell, that salty breeze, so pungent, so intense, so damn delicious. I miss running screaming into the freezing cold Atlantic only to find it nearly impossible to go all the way in. But one day, I will...

This is a story about how I went to Bali just to see what their toilet paper is like. I learned that sometimes… there isn’t any.  I was warned about “Bali Belly” by one of my sweet Italian friends. She made it sound like a rite of passage. I, being the world traveler that I am, was no stranger to toilet-bound...

There is Magic in Istanbul:  May 13th, 2024  By: Sally Golan  BORED ON AN ISLAND  Summer 2021  It was July 2021 and I was crispy brown and bored. Sitting at the beach club in Crete, Greece, for what felt like the billionth time, I felt no sparkle, no jazz, no magic. Just sweaty and a bit agitated (or...