January 18, 2025

Thirty, and I Have Thoughts: 30 Lessons on Life, Love & Letting Go?

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Life & Love · The Lori Diaries

Thirty. It sounds like a number, but it feels like the epilogue to all the dreams I've dreamed in a hurry and the prologue to the ones that are still taking shape.

December 7, 2024

Hallstatt, Austria: A Fairytale Village and a €5 Cappuccino

My visit to Hallstatt, Austria, in December 2024

Places & Plates · The Lori Diaries

Hallstatt is the sort of place that makes you wonder whether somebody built an entire village for the sole purpose of appearing on postcards. There are pastel houses pressed between mountains and a lake, a church steeple that seems to know exactly where to stand for photographs, and a ferry crossing that delivers you straight into the view you've probably already seen a hundred times online. I went expecting a fairytale. I got one, along with a very Austrian reminder that even a fairytale comes with a bill.

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