Dilvin Yasa

Escape's Doc Holiday, Dilvin Yasa, answers your travel-related questions.

Escape's Doc Holiday, Dilvin Yasa, answers your travel-related questions.

I’m the last person on Earth who should ever be tasked with writing a review of any kind of tech product. Not only am I the Goddess of the Blue Screen of Death (my husband insists I have the opposite of a green thumb for tech), but to speak to me about the new features of the latest iPhone (for example) is not unlike showing a dog a card trick. Cue cocked head and empty eyes.

The announcement of new direct flights across the Pacific inspired me to choose the best ways to explore French Polynesia.

Something curious has been happening to me the past few weeks.   

"Hi Doc, I’m due to travel to Europe via Doha in two weeks’ time and I’m nervous. Should I cancel?"

Escape's Doc Holiday, Dilvin Yasa, answers your travel-related questions.

Escape's Doc Holiday, Dilvin Yasa, answers your travel-related questions.

Escape's Doc Holiday, Dilvin Yasa, answers your travel-related questions.

Escape's Doc Holiday, Dilvin Yasa, answers your travel-related questions.

To my parents it was sold as a traditional gap year, but my year-long solo European adventure is better described as months of sleeping at fleabag hotels in San Sebastian, dining solo in the bistros of Paris, and clutching onto shady Vespa drivers haphazardly navigating the backstreets of Florence.