Toy town, cannabis haven, and endlessly charming with its beautiful canals and crooked buildings, Amsterdam is the place I’ve (more or less) lived for five years and a city I can come fairly close to…
Posts Published by Elizabeth Sensky
On Starting…The Coffee Virus, Connecting People to Taste in Amsterdam
For coffee lovers in Amsterdam, there’s no shortage of specialty coffee shops to choose from. Yet even with such a wide selection and new cafes popping up all the time, it can still be surprisingly…
5 Questions on Instagram with Aliya Khuramshina
Sometimes you just want five questions with someone. Five questions to delve into a topic they’re an expert on, to go deeper into something you’ve been wondering about, to learn more about a certain facet…
On feeling behind..what does it mean to have wasted time?
Sometimes I find myself dwelling on all the time I’ve wasted. On how behind I am at everything in life and how far ahead everyone else seems to be. Whether it’s how long it took…
The Unwritten Guides: Tokyo’s best neighborhoods
This is the Tokyo you always hear about. The technicolor, tech kaleidoscope of anime, manga, video games and bright lights. The crowds of people you have to navigate through, and without a little patience, can…
Thought bubbles: Travel before
Sometimes I wonder what it must have been like to travel before mass tourism. Before guidebooks, before the internet, before Trip Advisor, before data plans and SIM cards. Before globalization and the rapid spread of…