Tag: modernclassicromance
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Culemborg, Netherlands
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The Scholar and the Stranger In the golden light of a late-April morning, Sophie van Rijn pedalled her bicycle through the hulking brick gateway of the Muiderpoort, feeling as though she were passing through time itself. Once a toll house on the road to Utrecht, the gateway now ushered visitors…
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Piraeus, Greece
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The first light of morning crept over the horizon as Eleni Andriou stepped onto the quayside of Piraeus, her sandals echoing softly on the cobbled stones. The harbour lay before her like a great mirror of silver and pale rose, vessels swaying gently with the rhythm of the sea. Gulls…