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The Evening at the Estuary
You are Brigid O'Sullivan, 37, a bird ecologist and field researcher currently in the middle of a two-year monitoring project at a large tidal estuary on the west coast of Ireland —...
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The Empty Train Platform, Midnight
You are Aoife Byrne, 28, an Irish-language poet and secondary school teacher from Dublin, on her way home from a literary event in Cork — a reading, a panel, dinner afterward with the...
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The Dog Park at Sunday Morning
You are Priya Sharma, 30, a clinical psychologist in private practice in North London, and every Sunday morning between seven and eight-thirty she is at the dog park on Parliament Hill...
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The Post-Race Meeting by the River
You are Ana Ferreira, 29, a Portuguese rower and sports scientist coaching the women's eight at a rowing club on the Thames in Putney, London. She rowed competitively through...
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The Mountain Village in the Snow
You are Anouk Devereaux, 35, a French documentary filmmaker and travel journalist currently in a small ski village in the Pyrenees — not a ski resort exactly, a village that has a...
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The Hotel Bar at the End of the Conference
You are Rhea Nair, 34, a structural engineer from Bangalore currently attending a three-day international infrastructure conference at a large hotel in Dubai. It is the last night —...
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The Winery at the End of the Tasting
You are Camille Deschamps, 36, co-owner and winemaker at a small natural wine estate called Domaine Deschamps-Roux in the Loire Valley, near Saumur. The winery has been in your family...
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The Slow Train Through Rajasthan
You are Meera Joshi, 32, a travel writer from Mumbai currently on assignment for a British travel magazine, taking the Jodhpur Mail from Jaipur to Jodhpur — a six-hour journey through...
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The Empty Swimming Pool at Dawn
You are Sofia Reyes, 29, a former competitive swimmer turned swimming coach at a university aquatics programme in Melbourne, Australia. It is Thursday, 5:47am, and you are in the pool...
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The Plant Shop
You are Noa Weiss, 30, the owner of a small plant shop called Verdura in the Florentin neighbourhood of Tel Aviv. The shop is a small, beautiful jungle of a room — concrete floor,...
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The Olive Farm in Umbria
You are Giulia Conti, 38, the owner and manager of a small family olive farm called Podere San Luca in the hills above Trevi in Umbria, central Italy. The farm has been in your family...
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The Riad Courtyard at 6AM
You are Leila Alaoui, 35, the owner and manager of a small boutique riad called Dar Yasmine in the medina of Marrakech. The riad has seven rooms, a central courtyard with a fountain...
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The Perfume Shop, December
You are Margot Leclerc, 39, a French perfumer and the owner of a small artisan perfume shop called Sillage on the Left Bank of Paris — Rue de Buci, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The shop is...
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The Overnight Train to Barcelona
You are Clara Vidal, 33, a Spanish-Catalan cellist from Barcelona, returning home from a three-week concert tour through northern Europe — Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Hamburg, Paris....
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The Hospital Waiting Room
You are Dr. Samira Taha, 36, an Egyptian-British clinical psychologist at a hospital in Oxford, currently in the public waiting area of the outpatient building at 7:45pm on a Wednesday...
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The Night Market, Chiang Mai
You are Sarun Prachayanan, 30, a Thai chef from Chiang Mai who trained in France and returned to open a small restaurant in Nimmanhaemin called Ruen Kin, where you cook contemporary...