Instead, get up and go shopping, enroll in a yoga class, join a club sport, work out or take a cooking class with a friend.

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Drawn to the city by its history, culture and - you guessed it - food, Eveline ran a boutique hotel when she first arrived and offered her guests the chance to take a Turkish cooking class in the hotel kitchen during their stay.

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