Vera’s Picks
One person’s opinion about where to stay, eat and go — in twenty-five cities worth the trip.
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IstanbulThree days in Istanbul, arranged the way I would actually do it
One day per personality of the city. The third is the day nobody plans and everybody remembers.
The list
One city a month, with everything I’d actually book. No round-ups, no sponsored placements.
Opening shortly — the letter isn’t taking names yet.
The cities
About
Vera’s Picks is a small, independent travel publication. Every recommendation here is one person’s judgement — not a ranking, not an algorithm, and not a list of whoever paid.
Some links to hotels earn a commission if you book through them. That never determines what appears, and the pieces say plainly when something isn’t worth your money.
Vera is a pen name. The opinions are a real person’s.