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A summer story on the Black Sea highlands

📍 Rize / Ayder

Through MyTripDate I joined a group camping on the Ayder highlands. Emre was there too. We walked through mist and the s...
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A first kiss in the rain in Karaköy

📍 Istanbul / Karaköy

We matched on MyTripDate and the first date was a café in Karaköy. As we left it started to rain, we could not find a ta...
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When the Spotify playlist lined up perfectly

📍 Ankara

I had shared my Spotify playlist in my MyTripDate bio. Berk wrote, “Eighty per cent of those songs are on mine too.” We...
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Fifteen minutes on the Konak ferry in İzmir

📍 İzmir

We had matched the evening before on MyTripDate. The next morning, on the ferry from Konak to Karşıyaka, I was texting h...
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Backpacking in Vietnam led me to my husband

📍 Hanoi / Hoi An

I was solo backpacking through Southeast Asia. David had posted a route from Hanoi down to Hoi An on MyTripDate. We star...
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From a coffee shop in Porto to a life together

📍 Milan / Porto

Sofia matched with my Porto weekend trip. We met at a small coffee shop in Ribeira on a Friday afternoon. By Sunday even...
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From a voice note to a relationship

📍 Manchester

Chris sent me a voice note instead of a regular DM and I melted. We talked for hours every night for two weeks before me...
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Late twenties, back in the dating game, found my person

📍 Toronto

Coming out of a long-term relationship at 28, I felt like I had forgotten how to date. MyTripDate was lighter, more hone...
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We met on a train, three months later we were touring the Mediterranean

📍 Eskişehir / Antalya

I was on the train from Eskişehir to İzmir, and Kerem was in the same carriage. We had both shared an İzmir trip plan on...
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Travelling alone, I found the love of my life

📍 Cappadocia

I was 44 and had decided to travel solo. For a balloon flight in Cappadocia I looked for a travel companion on MyTripDat...
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An encounter in a festival crowd

📍 Istanbul

We had matched on MyTripDate a few months earlier but never met. At the One Love festival he suddenly wrote, “Aren't you...
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From long distance to living together: Ankara–İzmir

📍 Ankara / İzmir

For the first six months we lived between Ankara and İzmir. Every weekend, a bus or a plane. When we met on MyTripDate w...