tag: Istanbul

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. ...