To whoever mixed the new Twenty One Pilots album and decided to crank the audience mics? Fuck you, bro.

As much as everyone might hate AI flyers, can we stop with the cutesy "Oh, I made *my* flyer in MSPaint in 5 seconds with Comic Sans" shit? Because it's already getting old. If we consider flyers an art form worth preserving, then do it for real. Don't *just* make reactive, ironic humanslop.

Been in Europe and Africa for 2 weeks. Now that I'm back in the US, is it safe to eat lettuce here yet?

Flight 2026-26. NAP-ORD. Delays in planes, and tired as shit. Can't wait to be home again. 😭

(cutaia)@cutaia.net · last wk.

Flight 2026-25. RAK-CIA. Just one night in Naples and then heading home in the morning. I'll catch up on Rabat photos while I wait for planes or something.

Flight 2026-25. RAK-CIA. Just one night in Naples and then heading home in the morning. I'll catch up on Rabat photos while I wait for planes or something.

(cutaia)@cutaia.net · 2w ago

Flight 2026-24. CIA-RAK. Unfortunately it was delayed a bit, but landed in Morocco now. My first time in Africa, too!

Today's drive through Morocco. Rabat, here we come.

Riding camels to our camp in the Sahara Desert.

Stopped at Kasbah Amridil during the drive to Merzouga. Tonight we camp in the dunes of the Sahara.

The ksar at Aït Benhaddou, famous filming site of many Hollywood movie scenes.

Last stop in Marrakech was the Saadian Tombs, a royal cemetery from the 16th century.

Bahia Palace vignettes, including its cutest local resident.

Le Jardin Secret in Marrakech. Particularly loved one of the sections that contained a lot of African plants I don't commonly see.

Shots from the Ben Youssef Madrasa, Marrakech.

Started the day walking through the souks again. Found a lovely shop to buy some souvenirs. Almost got invited to a wedding by the shopkeeper. Love Moroccans, lol.

Marrakech vignettes.

The vibe of navigating Marrakech's winding maze of streets at night.

With the delay to Marrakech, we didn't get to spend as much time wandering as we wanted, but had a really excellent time enjoying the chaos of Jemaa el-Fnaa.

Flight 2026-24. CIA-RAK. Unfortunately it was delayed a bit, but landed in Morocco now. My first time in Africa, too!

(cutaia)@cutaia.net · 3w ago

Flight 2026-23. IST-NAP. I fucking hate landing in Naples, y'all. So fucking much. It's always so goddamn terrifying. Anyway, bye for now Istanbul.

The Odyssey made 900 million dollars? Wow, I can't believe only 27 people saw it.

Rome's sky stays beautiful through all stages of the sunset.

We were only in Rome for the evening, but that's enough to take a stroll down to the Colosseum, to see how it's been.

Various Rome vignettes.

I am legit so fucking sick if cleaning men's piss off of fucking public restroom toilet seats. If you do that, we all know you're a fucking pussy. Too scared to use a urinal. But obviously also too scared to shit in public because otherwise you would see the problem.

Anche una bellissima sera a Monopoli.

Il lido a Santa Cesarea Terme, ieri.

And, of course, no series of Istanbul posts is complete without the cats of Istanbul. (I also threw in one cat we saw in Conversano, IT, last night.)

Shots from the spice market and the neighborhood of Balat.

Topkapi palace, Istanbul, walls and windows edition.

Topkapi palace, Istanbul, courtyards edition.

The Hagia Sophia, was unfortunately under construction with lots of scaffolding, but still captured some really beautiful vignettes.