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We’re going to miss the feeling of dusting off old passports — even the anticipation of another PCR up our noses — before meeting on a random beach by the Mediterranean and sensing this trip will start a new chapter in our lives. Getting to know these new souls would just be the prelude.

We’re going to miss celebrating birthdays, new beginnings (and endings), sharing a private spa with a view, pushing ourselves afterwards at our new favourite lounge and learning - literally - that we can carry one another on our backs after nights like this.

We’ll miss walking among ancient Roman forums, Byzantine streets, ghost cities, old forts, alleyways, and salt lakes, complemented by outdoor brunches at our new favorite cafés.

We’ll miss wondering whether we could cross contentious borders between 2 powers in the world’s last divided capital city, the subsequent pleasant surprise of being able to, not fully sure whether we’re really supposed to be here because of accidental loopholes, the relief of being able to cross back over without an issue and the convenience of having a rapid test in case things go south only a few minutes away.

The end result? 30-40 years from now, we’ll be able to pick up the phone wherever we are in the world, and catch up like it was just yesterday because we shared something so intimate nobody else for the rest of lives will ever understand. That’s monsooning.

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After hitting a few walls on our way to visit the walled-off abandoned ghost city of Varosha, the Cyprus monsoon crew finally made it through today as one of the first visitors since 1974 on our 2nd attempt.

Check out the stories in the Cyprus highlight!
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Context: In the early 1970s, this city was one of the top tourist destinations in Cyprus if not the world, where movie stars chose here as their preferred destination away from Hollywood.

Then as what had happened in Pripyat/Chernobyl, its entire population quickly abandoned the city in 1974 when they had received news that the Turkish army were advancing from the north, after which the army took control and walled off the entire city.

It has been frozen in time ever since.

https://monsoondiaries.com/2021/06/12/varosha/

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