tag: Istanbul

This Saturday was my last evening in Istanbul. My flight would leave tomorrow at 14:40 and all my leads were dead. Given that I had already two near misses this trip, I was determined to fly home with a new notch. The night before, I agreed for my long term Turkish girl to meet me in Amsterdam end of September. Combined with a proper gym session that Saturday morning, I started my last daygame session with an outstanding vibe. As this was my last evening, my game automatically became more r-selected: I started filtering for rebellious girls and refused to take phone numbers unless I was certain that I could get them out on a date that night. ...

I’m back in Istanbul on a two week trip (one week holiday plus one week of remote work). This time I absolutely nailed my logistics: I’m staying in Nişantaşı right next to Osmanbey metro station. Not only is it arguably the best area for daygame, it’s also a pleasant upscale neighborhood to live in. This is also reflected in the pricing of accomodation and food… but so worth it. What I was expecting to be a solo daygame trip quickly turned out to be more social than anticipated: I was hitting the streets hard from Saturday to Monday and was spotted by two distinct daygame groups. “Bro, are you daygaming?” I heard on two distinct occasions. Both guys didn’t look like they were going to stone me, so I opened up. I ended up winging with two Turks and bumped later bumped into a coach working under the pseudonym “Casanova”. Alright. Overall I’m pretty happy: winged daygame is easier, and the decent male company boosts my vibe and gets me out of my head. ...

I’ve always been a voracious reader. My biggest literary challenge I took on thus far is reading Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova in French. My French being at a sufficiently high level[ˆ1], I feel comfortable reading the text. However, to fully grasp the nuances of Casanova’s writings, I fed his entire memoir to Claude. I instructed the AI to act as if I was speaking to the dead writer and adventurer, instructing “him” to, first of all correct my French grammar, and second to answer my queries in the dead writer’s voice. ...

I’ve been to Istanbul three times before to meet up with my first daygame mini-relationship that broke up in the beginning of 2024. This fourth time I was in Istanbul just for both business and daygame. Where are all the sets? On Tuesday 21 May 2024 I left my hotel which was located in Florya, well outside the city center (for business reasons). The taxi-ride to 30 minutes from Taksim square took about 30 minutes. As the weather was warm and I didn’t want to carry my leather jacket, I decided to leave it in local “Bounce luggage” for storage. This detail becomes important later on in the story. ...