by Robin Sparks | Feb 26, 2017 | Accommodations, Blog, Global Properties for Sale, The Best Places In the World
I have loved my flat in Istanbul! But the time has come for me to let go and turn towards what is next. Part of the view from the salon. Sit in Europe and look out over Asia! Istanbul was bigger than Rome and has been around for far longer, so Old Constantinople will...
by Robin Sparks | Feb 26, 2013 | Blog, People Living Large, Photos, The Best Places In the World, Travel, Where's Robin now?
Written on Nusa Ceningan, a small island off the coast of Bali, Indonesia on February 13, 2013. When I was walking along the beach last night, an Indonesian man told me they needed one more person for a snorkel trip in the morning. They were going to see mantas he...
by Robin Sparks | Feb 21, 2013 | Blog, The Best Places In the World, Travel, Uncategorized, Where's Robin now?
I have come alone to an Indonesian island called Nusa Lumbongan for a writing retreat. Why a solo writing retreat when I live on the bucolic island of Bali? Because in Ubud there is just so much life, friends and distraction, that I have to hide away at least once a...
by Robin Sparks | Mar 4, 2012 | Blog, The Best Places In the World, Travel, Where's Robin now?
I love gnarly shiny Bangkok with its jarring juxtapositions. Vendors selling anything and everything you didn’t know you needed (vibrator anyone?) for miles and miles along potholed smelly sidewalks, next to towering air conditioned shopping malls, the likes of...
by Robin Sparks | Dec 18, 2011 | Blog, Photos, The Best Places In the World, Travel
After I moved to Istanbul in 2006, a Turk named Mehmet told me that one day the European Union would beg Turkey to join. That day may be soon. Turkey is booming in the midst of Europe’s current economic crisis, and Istanbul was recently named by the Financial...
by Robin Sparks | May 23, 2009 | Blog, The Best Places In the World, Travel, Where's Robin now?
Haven’t even left yet and already I miss her. A few photos from the Island of the Gods, 2008-2009. More to come… Yours truly, Robin
