ARTS & LIFE
Wine and dine with art
End-of-year pieces typically highlight the milestones of the past year. For a food writer, it's about the best meals savored; for a wine writer, it's the finest bottles uncorked. This year, my memory is foggy, the only memory I recall vividly is our bizarre trip to Provence with my daughter who is 28. Our motive was not to make a culinary discovery trip but to make an entry to France because of her soon-to-expire Schengen visa. The rest of the trip was planned haphazardly by my daughter. The word bizarre fits in at this point. Her motive was to go to Cos in the cheapest way possible, and it turned out to be from Pisa, Italy, for only 16 euros direct flight to the island. She had to attend a friend’s wedding at Cos, and the travel from Ankara to Bodrum, and to take the ferry to the Greek island was more costly than to travel from Türkiye to France, take the coach to Torino and then the train to Pisa to fly to Cos. She had to first make an entry to France anyway, so we booked to Marseille. The schedule was tight as the due wedding date limited our stay in France, but we let ourselves to the flow, and mostly to the decisions of our travel companion Oray Eğin, who is a leading columnist in Türkiye, but also an unforgiving food critic who wouldn’t blink an eye to splash money for a good meal. With the car he rented we hit the road!
