I left Berlin for a flat overlooking the Bosphorus \u2013 and after a decade with a partner, found even Christmas could be joyful<\/p>\n
Recently I found this note in my 2021 diary: \u201cMoved into this apartment five days ago, waiting for loneliness to catch up, but it hasn\u2019t come.\u201d I had written it in September of that year. I had just moved from Berlin to Istanbul, alone. It was meant to be a three-month stay \u2013 the plan was to return to Berlin by Christmas. But I didn\u2019t return. It has now been more than three years and <\/strong>I\u2019ve never felt more alive.<\/p>\n Before the move abroad, I\u2019d lived with my partner for more than a decade. I was well acquainted with sharing life and space. Being truly alone within four walls was as new to me as my neighbourhood on the Bosphorus.<\/p>\n Toast with marmalade<\/p>\n Boiled egg<\/p>\n Fennel salad with walnuts<\/p>\n Carolin W\u00fcrfel is a writer, screenwriter and journalist. She is the author of Three Women Dreamed of Socialism<\/p>\n Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I left Berlin for a flat overlooking the Bosphorus \u2013 and after a decade with a partner, found even Christmas could be joyful Recently I found this note in my 2021 diary: \u201cMoved into this apartment five days ago, waiting for loneliness to catch up, but it hasn\u2019t come.\u201d I had written it in September … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}